The weekend weather will be dominated by high pressure sitting over Scandinavia feeding in increasingly chilly east/north-easterly winds across much of Britain and Ireland. As these winds pick up moisture from the North Sea so they will bring showers in from the east, and some of these will turn increasingly wintry as time goes on.

Already some showers have been feeding into central and eastern parts of England overnight and these continue today, heaviest and most frequent towards the east coast, with some showers affecting eastern Scotland later. Otherwise for many areas it will be a rather cloudy day again but with a better chance of some bright or sunny spells breaking through, especially towards more western regions, but for the far northwest of Scotland and Ireland it will be cloudy and damp with some rain and drizzle at times It will be mild here with temperatures of 9°C or 10°C, but for much of the country highs will be in the range of 6°C or 7°C and feeling colder in the breeze.

The wind will continue to feed showers in from the east tonight and these will turn wintry over higher ground from the Peak District northwards. Where skies clear towards the west some frost is possible, but the wind will generally help to hold temperatures above the freezing mark. Sunday sees more of the same with a keen wind bringing rather cold conditions and further scattered showers, some of the showers locally quite heavy and wintry over high ground.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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