Meteorological winter is coming to an end and it's been another interesting season across Britain and Ireland with a variety of weather throughout the last three months. The season is now finishing with high pressure building in from the south to bring mostly settled conditions across the country although a weakening frontal system will be sinking south during the course of the weekend.

Friday is dawning fine and dry across just about all parts of the UK and Republic of Ireland although there is more in the way of cloud across northern parts of Scotland and in particular the Northern Isles where a weak warm front is bringing some rain and drizzle. This will tend to push away north-eastwards today allowing drier and brighter conditions to develop with most places seeing a fine and settled day with plenty of sunshine once any early mist or fog patches have cleared. Some patchy fair weather cloud will bubble up during the course of the day but it will stay dry just about everywhere and, after a cold start, it will end up fairly mild in many regions with top temperatures ranging from 9°C in the north to 13°C in the south, feeling pleasant with only light winds.

It remains clear in many places this evening and tonight so temperatures will drop away after sunset with a widespread ground frost forming along with some patches of mist and fog. The exception will come across the north and west where increasing cloud and some rain or drizzle will push in helping to hold temperatures up. This band of cloud with increasingly patchy rain will edge slowly south-eastwards over the weekend with mostly fine conditions dominating either side of this.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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