Many places will end the working week off on a drier and brighter note compared to recently but don't be fooled as more wet and windy weather is on the way for the weekend as a deepening Atlantic low set to push north-eastwards across the country bringing heavy rain, some snow and the risk of severe gales to the south.
Once again it is a generally cloudy start to the day with showery outbreaks of rain pushing in from the west, the rain heaviest and most persistent over west-facing coasts and hills. Those spells of rain will gradually become more confined to south-western counties of England, Wales and Ireland today with some persistent rainfall for higher parts of Wales and southwest England. Otherwise many areas will see more in the way of drier and brighter conditions developing with some sunny spells, but showers will continue to affect the north and west, some of these still quite heavy in places and falling as snow over the Scottish mountains. It will be another windy day, especially across eastern and north-eastern England this morning when severe gale force gusts of up to 60 MPH are possible before the winds slowly ease later. Top temperatures will range from a rather chilly 4°C to 8°C in the north and a milder 11°C to 14°C further south.
Showers in the north die back towards windward coasts tonight with clear spells allowing for a fairly widespread frost to form across northern Britain tonight. It will be milder further to the south with thickening cloud bringing outbreaks of rain across many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland during the night, the rain perhaps turning to wet snow on its northern boundary. The weekend then starts off wet across central and northern regions with rain and snow whilst the south is drier but very windy, but by Sunday many areas will see a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers as that low pulls away to the east.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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