A weakening cold front will be moving across northern parts of the UK today bringing some patchy rain and drizzle before wintry showers follow on into the far north later but for most other regions a weak ridge of high pressure will bring plenty of dry if rather cloudy weather across the country. During the next couple of days we are expecting a cold front to sweep eastwards later on Monday to introduce colder weather with wintry showers on Tuesday.
Many places have remained cloudy and frost free overnight, but where skies have cleared across some northern and eastern regions there is some frost around this morning. This will clear and then many areas will see a dry and quiet day of weather with variable and often large amounts of cloud drifting around, the cloud thick enough to bring the odd shower in places. There will be some brighter spells around but generally sunshine will be at a premium. The exception will come across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland where a band of rain will be pushing eastwards, weakening as it does so. This rain will reach parts of northwest England and Wales by this evening allowing clearer conditions and a few wintry showers to follow into the far northwest. Temperatures will range from highs of 3°C to 6°C for many, but it will again be milder in the far southwest.
That band of cloud and increasingly patchy rain and drizzle continues to edge a little further south-eastwards across England and Wales tonight. Elsewhere and where clearer spells develop, then it will turn frosty but this will allow for a good chance to view the total lunar eclipse during the early hours. A bright start tomorrow then gives way to increasing cloud and wind from the northwest with outbreaks of rain arriving across the west and northwest as the next Atlantic frontal system moves in.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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