28/02/2013 BBC Weather

Hello again. As a winter draws to a close, we tot up the numbers for

the last three months and divide by three and ended with a distinctly

average winter across the UK as a whole in terms of sunshine,

rainfall and also temperature. That does mask some ups and downs. We

started with mild, wet weather in December. It was snowing in January.

It finished off with a lot of dry weather, cold and also very, very

dull. Guess what we have got for the start of March? More of the

same. It is down to an area of high pressure, which is going nowhere in

a hurry. The rain is down there, over Spain, for tonight and

tomorrow. Very wet, windy and some snow in the mix but nothing like

that back here. Still chilly tonight but not as cold as last

night because we have more of a cloud cover. A touch of frost, here

and there, but patchy. Patchy rain also in the Mist -- in the mix.

Temperatures generally about three or four degrees. A little lower in

one or two spots. A grey start to Friday for most of us, particularly

across the southern parts of the UK. Few brighter spells breaking

through further north. Not the extensive sunshine that northern

parts have enjoyed for the last couple of days. It is another great

one across south-west England. We cannot shift the cloud at the

moment. Across southern England that chilly wind continues to blow

in from the north-east, just four or five degrees across the north-

east coast. In the north, more brightness. There will be some

brighter skies in southern Scotland. Not seeing the 12s and 13s we have

seen recently. Bringing some up bricks of light rain in across the

North of Scotland through Friday evening, we might see a bit in the

way of probes -- breaks and the cloud through central parts through

the early hours of Saturday morning, leading to a touch of fast. Either

side of that, more cloud. Temperatures are few degrees above

freezing. What about the weekend? It should stay mostly dry. It will

stay mostly cloudy, we cannot shift these conditions at the moment. The