 High pressure is sitting over Scandinavia this weekend but we have a complication in the form of a shallow area of low pressure over the English Channel which is bringing some scattered showers along with somewhat less cold air to parts of the south. In fact, although pressure remains high over Scandinavia well into next week, it never gets too cold for our part of the world due to a lack of deep cold air across the near continent.
Nonetheless, it is a rather chilly and cloudy start to the weekend in many places with scattered showers of rain, graupel and snow, the snow mainly over higher ground. It is a clearer start to the day for western Scotland along with parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland so there is a sharp frost this morning but the sunshine will help lift temperatures this morning. Not a huge amount of change is expected today with many places holding onto a lot of cloud and some further scattered bursts of rain and hill snow passing through from time to time. The best of the sunshine will remain out towards the north and west with some shelter from those winds, but somewhat brighter conditions will develop towards southeast England this afternoon. Temperatures today will generally be in the range of 4°C to 8°C but the wind making it feel colder.
The east/northeast wind continues to feed in a lot of cloud this evening and tonight with the clearer skies and greatest risk of frost coming towards the north and west of Scotland and Ireland. Scattered showers will still be affecting many central and eastern regions, spreading further west at times. The showers will mainly fall as rain or sleet over lower levels, but for higher ground some snow is possible. Tomorrow sees little change overall with a lot of chilly and rather cloudy weather persisting and further showery outbreaks in places but the northwest should be drier and brighter.
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