[bamford6]

Cold and wintry weather is on the menu for most of the country during the next few days, and there is the prospect of snow in places. However, we won't be seeing intensely cold conditions of the sort we had during December during the next week.
On Wednesday rain, with snow over the hills, will push south across the country, and it will be rather chilly. Thursday may bring a spell of heavy rain to the south, and on the northern edge, perhaps in the Chiltern and south Midland region, this could turn to sleet and snow during the afternoon and evening. Then on Friday another spell of rain will push up from the south west, and this looks set to turn to sleet or snow for a time across southern and central regions before milder air edges back in, and rain returns.The middle of next week brings the prospect of higher temperatures with more mobile weather from the Atlantic pushing across Britain, but beyond that it continues to look as though colder weather will return.

[faith0504]

it has been snowing in buckie today

[darkbrowneggs]

You have been really accurate so far, I love your posts - so informative

Sue

[bamford6]

this is haw the rest off the month should pan out The likelihood is that milder weather will arrive into next week, but for the next few days at least we're likely to be locked into a weather battle as cold air from the north meets milder air trying to push up from the south - and temporarily at least the cold will have the upper hand.

Starting with today, that colder air is up across Scotland where there are wintry showers affecting coastal parts, giving further accumulations of snow as the day goes on. During the morning the cold progresses south into Northern England on a fairly weak weather front - this too will give some wintry outbreaks at times especially up over the higher ground.

Heading down into the midlands, it's dry and chilly, but further south still down into southern England it's still raining and that rain will take it's time to clear away from the west during the day, with another 10-20mm of rain (perhaps more close to the coast) likely to fall before it does so.

Overnight tonight, the wintry showers continue in the north, but in general it's dry with a widespread frost from the midlands northwards, further south the temperature will dip down very close to freezing so after all the rain some icy patches are a possibility.

It's into the early hours that the battle begins though with more rain pushing up from the southwest, and as it bumps into the cold from the Midlands and Wales northwards it will readily turn to snow. So it's a wet start to the day in southern England again with a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow likely to be falling through parts of Wales and the Midlands during the morning rush. That rain, sleet and snow continues north during the day, reaching southern Scotland by evening time.

Overnight Friday and into the weekend, the front will tend to pivot across Scotland - meaning some ongoing heavy snow is likely through southern, central and eastern parts in particular, before that clears away and the cold air makes a comeback from the northwest, bringing further wintry showers through into Scotland and Northern England during the remainder of the weekend, with rain and sleet in the south.

Looking further ahead more Atlantic systems are likely to arrive into next week, and for a time at least the cold air will cling on in the north, but eventually it seems a milder spell of weather is on the cards - how long it'll last for though is unsure. iff we can get through the next 2 months with not to much problem we can all cope with the wether

[JD]

Thanks Gary am heading down to Cheshire area this weekend from Glasgow so appreciate that.
JD