18/11/2013 BBC Weather

Good evening. Now that the cold weather is here, there are signs we

could see the conditions continue for at least a good week but to

varying degrees. The clue is in the position and the pattern of the

Jetstream at the moment. This means that weather trends will not change

from day to day. We will see high pressure building tonight, and

because we are on the eastern flank of that high pressure, it is feeding

the cold air to all of us. Everyone will see a frost develop, just

about. A covering of snow across north-western parts of Scotland, and

across in Northern Ireland and north-west England, parts of Wales,

over the hilly ground we could see a covering of snow in the morning.

Despite the cold start, compared to the gloomy conditions most have

experienced in the past few days, a lot more sunshine around. But the

showers will keep going, still wintry across northern Scotland in

the morning, and the risk of some sleet, snow and hail in western

England. They could affect parts of eastern England as well, but for the

most part of the afternoon it is dry and sunny, but much colder than we

are used to. Further north we will see some hill snow quickly turning

to rain through the evening and first part of the night on Tuesday,

and rain will be the main feature is it pushes its ways southwards into

Wednesday. There will be some squally winds, gales elsewhere, and

cold air will surge its ways southwards behind the cold front.

Later these showers turn wintry once again. This low pressure moves down

through the North Sea, the wind switching to the north-east. The

winds remain quite strong and chilly, so the showers could still

be wintry in nature. Not really bringing a huge amount