A cold Arctic air mass is affecting parts of northern and eastern Britain today but it will be short-lived as warmer air pushes northwards during the next couple of days thanks to high pressure building over central and eastern mainland Europe and a warm front pushing north across Britain and Ireland in association with low pressure forming to the west meaning that south/south-westerly winds will develop.
It's a bright and chilly start to Friday across the north and east with a frost having formed in places whilst sleet and snow showers continue to affect the far north. Further to the south and west it is cloudier and, as a result, less cold, with scattered showers feeding in from the west and northwest. Not a huge amount of change is expected today with most places seeing variable amounts of cloud and some bright or sunny intervals. Showers will continue to feed in across the north and west with the odd one filtering further south and east from time to time, but any snow in the north will tend to become confined to the far northeast later. Top temperatures today will range from 3°C to 6°C in the north and 8°C to 11°C further south, feeling particularly cold in the far northeast.
Any showers will tend to die out this evening and tonight with variable amounts of cloud continuing to drift around, the thickest and most persistent cloud coming towards the west and northwest where some patchy rain will drift northwards during the course of the night. Elsewhere, and where skies clear it will turn chilly with some patchy frost, but temperatures will hold up where the cloud lingers. This takes us into a warmer weekend as a warm front heads north to leave many places with sunny spells at times and temperatures into the high teens by Sunday despite the wind picking up.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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