After a gloomy yet fairly dry week of weather, "wetter and windier" conditions are set to hit the UK in a matter of days.
Over the past week the UK has been affected by a weather phenomenon known as anticyclonic gloom which occurs when high pressure suppresses vertical air flow - this leads to persistent grey skies, mist, fog, and drizzle.
By the end of the weekend, this high pressure is set to make way for an area of low pressure, as a band of rain travels towards the UK from the Atlantic, heading in an easterly direction over the country on Sunday (October 19).
The Met Office has issued an explanation for the change in the weather in a seven-day forecast.
In a video shared on YouTube, Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin explained: "High pressure is still with us, certainly for the next couple of days. There's a lot of cloud trapped under that high pressure. Some breaks in the cloud revealing some sunshine here and there."
The weather forecaster explained that this high pressure means that conditions will be fairly dry, cloudy, with occasional light showers in places, and temperatures in the low teens.
Alex continued: "That area of high pressure continues into the start of the weekend but we do start to see a change during Saturday as the first low pressure edges in."
The Met Office has predicted that Saturday will remain dry for most of the country, with some areas being affected by patchy rain as the low pressure systems begin to push through.
He added: "But all change through the weekend because we will see by Sunday the band of rain move from west to east. And the winds picking up also.
"So the weekend is the transition from a dry start to a wet end."
Explaining why the transition from dry to wet is taking place this weekend, Alex said that we need to first look at the global picture. Last week Typhoon Halong hit the Pacific and other areas of the Pacific, but it is now an ex-typhoon.
Ex-typhoon Halong, which is now just an area of low pressure, is now affecting the jet stream, pushing the energy through the upper atmosphere which will have downstream effects.
Alex said: "Eventually that will ripple down into the Atlantic and affect us."
Met Office weather maps show strong winds of up to 46mph on Sunday, getting stronger the further of the UK.
Looking at the Met Office's weekend outlook, it reads: "Cloudy for many on Saturday, but turning increasingly breezy through the day. Rain arrives from the west overnight, with Sunday widely wet and windy. Blustery showers persist through Monday."
And if we look even further ahead at the time period between October 20 and 29, the Met Office warns of "unsettled" conditions, with "longer spells of rain" and "strong winds".
The long-term forecast for the UK reads: "A rather unsettled pattern is likely through much of this period, as low pressure systems originating over the North Atlantic trundle east or northeastwards across the UK.
"These will bring showers or longer spells of rain, perhaps accompanied by some strong winds at times, but also interspersed with some drier and brighter interludes, albeit these generally of shorter duration than the recent settled spell.
"Later in the period, there may be a transition to a slightly cooler and more showery northwesterly regime, as high pressure builds over the Atlantic to the west, and low pressure becomes centred to the east of the UK."