It's been a while since high pressure has been on the scene but this weekend will become increasingly settled as pressure rises quickly with values approaching 1050mb expected by Sunday evening towards the south and southwest of the UK. This high looks set to dominate well into next week across southern regions, but northern areas will turn increasingly cloudy and breezy with some showers developing at times.

For most places Saturday will dawn fine and sunny with clear skies but it will be a colder start to the day with a frost having formed in many regions overnight, the lowest temperatures coming towards the north and west. There are some showers, wintry over high ground, affecting northern and western Scotland where they are quite frequent in natures, but there are also some scattered showers affecting other windward coasts. The showers will continue in these areas today, tending to become lighter and less frequent, but for most places it will be a fine and dry day with plenty of sunshine around. Despite the sunshine it will be a rather chilly day with temperatures in the range of 5°C to 7°C in many regions, but feeling colder in the brisk winds towards the northeast.

Temperatures will drop quickly this evening with a widespread frost forming tonight along with some patchy mist or fog in places. Only coastal regions are likely to avoid a frost thanks to more of a breeze, and the odd shower may continue to feed into the far north and east. Sunday is then set to be another fine and rather chilly day across much of the country, but thicker cloud and milder temperatures will arrive across the far northwest later as the south-westerly breeze picks up here.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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A few more days of low pressure and frontal systems to deal with, but the models are hinting at high pressure dominating the weather next week...

The meteorologists here monitor pretty much every model and every which comes through, but what are the latest models indicating for the rest of January?