High pressure over the North Sea will bring generally fine and settled conditions to many parts of the country for the next couple of days but by the weekend it will once again give way to more unsettled conditions returning from the west, this more unsettled weather actually arriving in the far north and west tonight and tomorrow.

For this morning and it dawns mostly fine and rather chilly in many places. In the south temperatures have dropped down into single figures so cooler than recent mornings whilst for the north there's a touch of ground frost in places. It is generally dry though apart from the odd shower still feeding in across eastern and south-eastern England thanks to the northeast breeze.

Most places will then see a mostly fine and settled day of weather with plenty of sunny spells and variable amounts of cloud drifting around, the thickest of which may produce the odd light shower. There will be a bit more in the way of cloud across parts of Ireland and, later, western Scotland and western districts of Northern Ireland which could bring the odd shower.

It will be a slightly warmer day in the south thanks to more sunshine compared to recent days with temperatures climbing up to highs of 15°C to 17°C, but it will remain a touch cooler in the far north.

Many parts of England and Wales will become fine, clear and chilly tonight with temperatures dipping away but for northern and western regions temperatures will hold up as the cloud and breeze increases with rain moving into the far west. This takes us into a rather cloudy and damp day tomorrow for northern and western Scotland, Northern Ireland and much of Ireland but for the rest of Scotland, England and Wales it will be mostly fine and dry.

METEOROLOGIST : BARBER

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