A cold Arctic Maritime air stream is now affecting many parts of Britain and Ireland with fresh to strong northerly winds pushing that cold air south as low pressure pulls away to the east and high pressure builds to the west. It will be a fairly short-lived colder snap though with the high set to move across the country tomorrow before sinking away to the south to allow milder air back in as we go into the early part of next week.
For this morning we still have the residual rain from overnight clearing the far south and southeast of England but this will soon be out of the way and then for much of the country it will be a bright and breezy day with plenty of bright autumn sunshine around. We do have some showers around windward coasts in the north and west though and as we go through the day those showers will tend to become more concentrated to northern and eastern coastal regions of Britain as the winds veer northerly. The showers will be heavy at times and over higher parts of Scotland they will be falling as snow, but even for some lower parts of the northeast some of the showers will be wintry in nature. Temperatures will range from 3°C to 6°C in the north and 7°C to 10°C in the south, but it will feel rather cold in the wind.
A cold night follows tonight with a widespread frost forming as clear skies develop, the frost becoming quite sharp in the north, but showers will continue to feed in across the east of the UK on brisk northerly winds which will keep it slightly less cold in these areas. Showers in the east will then die out tomorrow to leave many places with a cold but fairly sunny day. However, as we go through the day cloud and rain will arrive across the north as the winds begin to back into a milder west/south-westerly direction.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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