Big changes in the weather across many parts of Britain and Ireland in the next 24 hours as high pressure over Scandinavia brings back the bitterly cold easterly winds which will bring the risk of snow over the weekend, especially to parts of the east and south. However, we're not expecting conditions on the whole to be as severe as they were at the start of the month and milder air will return as we go through next week.
Friday dawns rather cloudy, misty and murky in many regions with outbreaks of rain affecting much of northern and eastern Britain. Some heavy showery rain is also pushing northwards across parts of Ireland, Wales and the Midlands and this shower rain, locally heavy, will continue to edge further north and east so that for much of the north and east of the country it remains dull and damp today. As it turns colder in the northeast, some of the rain will begin to turn to snow, initially over higher ground but even to lower levels later. Meanwhile for the south and southwest there will be more in the way of drier and brighter weather around, but once again some scattered showers will break out this afternoon. Winds will be light to moderate south/south-easterlies for many, but freshening easterlies arrive in the northeast later. Temperatures will be on the mild side in the south with highs of 11°C to 14°C, but it will be turning increasingly cold in the north and east.
Increasingly cold and windy weather spreads south-westwards tonight with a widespread frost forming across the north and east of the UK despite the wind. Outbreaks of rain will turn increasingly to snow as they push southwest, bringing some slight accumulations in places by the morning. This takes us into a very cold weekend with temperatures struggling to get much above freezing by day and some hard overnight frosts. Rain and snow will continue to push west tomorrow with scattered snow showers following on into eastern districts , these potentially merging into longer spells of snow in places at times.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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