High pressure ruling the roost for much of Britain and Ireland today and, in fact, the coming days as it continues to reside over or close to southern parts of the country. This means plenty of settled weather on the cards but the far north and northwest will be cloudier and breezier at times with some periods of rain as frontal systems brush past.

For this morning it's very much a north-south split. For many central and southern parts of England and much of Wales it has been a cold and frosty night and there are some freezing fog patches around too. These will lift this morning and then for these regions it will be another mostly fine and sunny day although cloud will tend to increase in places by this afternoon. Most of the cloud will be found across much of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and northern parts of England although here it is milder as a result. There is a band of rain across the far northwest and this will sink a little further southeast across Scotland and Northern Ireland today, weakening as it does so, but allowing brighter conditions to move into the far northwest. Maximum temperatures today will be close to normal for many, ranging from 7°C to 9°C quite widely, but feeling cooler in the brisk wind in the north.

Another frost forms widely across southern regions tonight under clear skies with some frost in the far north too, but where the cloud persists temperatures should hold above freezing and later on a freshening wind in the far northwest will help to lift temperatures here too. This takes us into a very windy day across north-western Britain tomorrow with gales or severe gales developing. Rain will move into the northwest later in the day too, but for much of the rest of the country it will be mostly dry with the best of the sunshine for southern regions.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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