A look at the pressure chart today and you will either be thinking "thank goodness it's not January" or "if only it was January" depending on how you view cold and snowy weather. Yes, a strong easterly wind affecting many regions today and so although it will feel cold, it won't be cold enough for snow in many areas thanks to the warm North Sea and the fact that it's still November.
It's a chilly and cloudy start to the day for many areas with showers continuing to feed into central and eastern districts from off the North Sea. This process continues throughout the day with the showers tending to become more widespread, and they will merge into longer spells of rain over parts of northern and eastern England with some places ending up pretty cold and wet. Most of the showers will fall as rain, but some snow is possible over the highest peaks with the heavier showers perhaps turning sleety at lower levels. As always with showers, some places will actually miss out on them but as a general rule of the thumb the best of the drier and brighter conditions will be towards the more sheltered west. Today's maximum temperatures will be in those more sheltered spots where 9°C or 10°C is possible, but for many it will be cold with values between 4°C and 7°C but with the windchill making it feel close to or below freezing.
Further spells of rain or showers are likely to continue throughout tonight with a risk of sleet and snow over higher ground. However, where skies are clearer and there's some shelter from the wind it will turn cold with some patchy frost and ice forming. Tomorrow will see showers or longer spells of rain, with some hill snow, tending to affect northern and western regions of Britain and Ireland with some drier and brighter weather for the east and southeast although it will remain cold.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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