Hi there. As is often the case in mid-March, a bit of a
tussle this week between winter and spring.
Whilst we've started the week with much higher temperatures
across most of the UK compared with last week.
Winter is still there across northern Scotland
and that's colder air as low pressure moves
away, starts to move south during Monday nights,
bringing a return to frost
ice and in some places snow.
Although I think over the next few days the snow
accumulations largely confined to higher parts
of northern UK.
Not a great deal at lower levels and it's a mild start
in the south of England with some cloud and rain showers
first thing Tuesday.
Widespread frost elsewhere, brisk skies follow the
rain in the south and for Scotland, Northern Ireland,
northern England and North Wales, snow showers.
The snow may be falling at lower levels, but really it's
going to be accumulating above around 200 metres, lower
levels for northern Scotland where significant
accumulations are likely to build up once again across
Shetland, where already there are some decent accumulations
that could cause further issues and elsewhere actually some
icy patches and some tricky conditions over northern
hills because of the additional few centimetres
of snow through Tuesday. In the south though, it's largely
dry. After that, showery start with some sunshine
910 Celsius in the south, but single
figures elsewhere. So a marked drop in temperatures for
most away for northern Scotland compared with Monday.
I'm feeling cold in that northerly wind, but it won't be
quite as windy as Monday.
And then with clear skies and lighter winds overnight,
we're going to see a widespread frost once again and
temperatures as low as -12 Celsius for some sheltered
parts of northern Scotland, especially where we've got a
bit of lying snow after that widespread frost.
Actually, it's a bright start to Wednesday for the vast
majority, plenty of sunshine and we keep the sunshine for
much of Scotland into eastern England, into the early
afternoon. But further snow showers will affect the
northern isles and the far north of Scotland.
Again, another few centimetres likely.
So risk of further disruption here, but further
west, we've got rain moving in now is that rain pushes into
the cold air. Chances of some snow for the hills of
Northern Ireland as well as Wales.
And then later Wednesday that rain and hill
snow moves into northern England and Scotland.
Any hill snow fairly transient through Wednesday
for the vast majority because it's then going to turn to
rain. That is apart from northern Scotland
where once again on Thursday there is that
risk of further snow, especially over hills, but perhaps
at lower levels at times as well as
across the UK. It's not at all cold on Thursday, it's much
milder, a strong south to southwesterly
wind spells of rain, especially for western hills.
And that rain will really accumulate, especially for north
west England and south west Scotland.
Over the hills, 70 millimetres plus more
showery conditions across much of England and Wales,
especially towards the east by the afternoon.
Some brighter spells at times, but quite a
lot of these showers are coming through thick and fast,
more persistent rain and on the northern edge,
some snow there for northern Scotland.
Now into Thursday nights.
The weather fronts move through the occluded
front. Then the north of Scotland remains and again some
snow on its northern flank possible especially of the hills
of northern Scotland. But across the rest of the UK it's
just mild and increasingly.
So actually this area of low pressure drawing up spring
like warmth.
I think by Friday, especially where the cloud breaks,
we get some sunshine coming through, which will be the case
for East Anglia, the East Midlands, the south east,
otherwise quite a lot of showers.
The showers will be very lively.
They'll be coming through with hail and thunder for much of
England and Wales. More persistent rain and some hill
snow for the far north of Scotland.
Spells of rain or showers for Northern Ireland, but for
most temperatures are in the double figures and we're
looking at mid-teens again across large parts of England
and into Wales, perhaps as high as 16 Celsius if we get
some sunny spells, a far cry from the
chill that could potentially remain across the
far north of Scotland.
And that tussle continues into the weekend.
We're going to see cold conditions remaining in the far
north of Scotland, low pressure bringing some southwest
these and some outbreaks of rain or showers
elsewhere. So an unsettled look on Saturday with a mixture
of sunny spells and showers.
The bulk of the showers coming through into the west
and the southwest, the best of any brightness towards the
east i.