low latitude high pressure returns next week, calming things down, drying things up, and should become mild or very mild.
one high drifts away eastward and another azores ridge builds in from the west taking us into the new year.
but does high #2 drift east? or sit to our west? if it sits to our west we might get dry cloudy mild weather like we did in such a situation about 10 - 12 years ago. but if it ridges north, it might give us a northerly blast like the current (00z) gfs suggests.
currently the anomaly charts dont allow for a northerly for more then a few hours - keeping the mean upper flow westerly (8 - 14 days) .
so after a stormy crimbo period, its looking set to settle down, become calmer, drier and milder again from midweek next onwards.