After the very mild conditions of recent days across many central and southern regions of Britain and Ireland, a change to colder weather is now taking place in the wake of a cold front clearing away to the southeast this morning. The next few days will see those colder conditions prevail with wintry showers in the north and night frosts becoming more widespread.
We start off this morning with that cold front bringing a lot of cloud and some showery outbreaks of rain across southeast England but this will fairly quickly clear away to the east allowing brighter and less windy conditions to move in. For much of the country Thursday will then be a bright and breezy day with a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers, the heaviest and most frequent showers coming across Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northwest England where they could merge into longer spells of rain at times with snow over higher ground, but even lower parts of northern Scotland will be at risk of seeing snow as that colder air digs in. By this afternoon the showers will tend to ease a touch and become confined to coastal regions in the north and west that are exposed to the west/northwest wind, but at the same time thickening cloud will bring outbreaks of rain back into southwest England. After a mild start in the southeast with temperatures into the low teens, it will be turning colder so that temperatures this afternoon will generally be in the range of 5°C to 9°C, but remaining around freezing over higher parts of Scotland.
Many parts of central and northern Britain along with Ireland will become cold and frosty tonight with a sharp frost forming over rural parts of Scotland but around northern and western coasts those wintry showers will continue. Southern counties of England will remain frost free thanks to an area of cloud and rain moving in from the southwest, some of this rain heavy in the far south. This soon clears tomorrow morning to leave many places with a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers for Friday, the showers mainly across the north and west of Scotland where they will be heavy and wintry. However further rain may affect the far south and southwest later in the day.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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