The very mild air of the last couple of days is now being pushed away to the southeast by a pair of cold fronts and in the wake of these fronts comes an increasingly chilly and showery Polar Maritime air mass for the end of the week and into the weekend. We are monitoring developments closely for the weekend when a deepening low brings the risk of some very wet and windy weather with it but more on this in the next day or two.
Back to this morning and those cold fronts are bringing two main bands of cloud, one across southern and south-eastern parts of England where some patchy rain and drizzle can be found. Meanwhile the second band of cloud across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland is bringing more in the rain with it, some of the rain locally heavy. Elsewhere it is a drier and brighter start to the day, but showers are already packing into the north and west of Scotland. As we go through today the bands of cloud and increasingly patchy rain and drizzle will continue to push southeast, reaching southern counties of England by this evening. The brighter, and colder, weather will then follow on from the northwest, along with a scattering of showers which will turn heavy with a risk of hail and thunder as well as increasingly wintry over higher parts of Scotland later on. Top temperatures in the north today will be around 5°C to 9°C, but in the south maximums will reach 14°C or 15°C before dropping off later.
A colder night follows in many areas with the cloud and patchy rain in the south clearing to leave rather windy and showery conditions following in from the northwest, the showers turning increasingly wintry over northern hills and mountains whilst there could also be some hail and thunder in places too. For more sheltered areas further south and east it will become mainly dry and cold with some frost forming in places. This takes us into a chilly and windy day tomorrow with many places seeing sunshine and blustery showers, but the showers will always be heaviest and most frequent in the north and northwest.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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