It's a cold start to Sunday across many parts of the country with a widespread frost and some scattered wintry showers. Slightly milder conditions will be moving in during the next 24 hours as an Atlantic low pressure system and its associated fronts sweep in from the west but this milder air will be short-lived with much of the upcoming week then looking cold with winds from a northerly quarter set to dominate.
Back to this morning and a widespread ground and air frost has formed overnight where skies cleared. Meanwhile showers have continued around northern and western coastal regions meaning that some areas are waking up to some snow and icy surfaces. Those showers are still peppering the north and west this morning but as we go through the day they will tend to ease somewhat and turn back to rain as we begin to draw in slightly milder air from the west. This milder air will eventually bring in a band of rain across western Scotland, Northern Ireland and western Ireland later this afternoon and into the evening. Elsewhere and for most places it will be another fine and sunny day although cloud will tend to increase from the west turning the sunshine hazy later. It will be rather cold again with top temperatures generally in the range of 4°C to 8°C, feeling colder in the brisk winds.
Although there may be an early touch of frost in the east and southeast this evening, many places will actually be frost free tonight as that band of rain, accompanied by brisk winds, pushes south-eastwards across the country, reaching the southeast by the morning as clearer, more showery conditions follow the rain into the north and west. The last of the rain clears the southeast early tomorrow to leave much of the country with a rather windy and showery start to the working week, and as colder air begins to dig into the north later in the day so those showers will start turn increasingly wintry over higher ground once again.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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