26/03/2014 BBC Weather

blowing. On the outlook, it is warming up towards the weekend.

Here's Nick Miller with more. Some of the many faces of spring

weather showed themselves today. Sun in Scotland, snow in the showers

that moved in across England. Hail as well. Adrian took this picture

from Essex and the chilly feel stays with us for the rest of the week

along with further showers. If you don't like this, wait for this!

Temperatures heading up at the weekend. To achieve that, we need to

change the weather pattern which is tailored towards a cold wind coming

in from the North Sea and low pressure giving us showers. Cold

enough for the rest of the night for the showers to fall as snow on the

Pennines and even to relatively low levels, there could be temporary

accumulations. A touch of frost and patchy ice and a bit of mist and fog

here and there as Thursday begins. At 8am, heavy showers scattered

about on the south coast of England into the far south-west. Could be a

rumble of thunder to give you an early alarm call! Elsewhere, a fair

amount of cloud. Some bright and sunny spells with one or two showers

dotted about, some from the word go, in Northern Ireland, some

heading into north-east England and eastern Scotland still with the

chilly easterly wind. Everything moving from east to west on the wind

so a bit more cloud in Scotland, a few more showers heading west. Into

the afternoon, we could see the showers merging to give heavy rain

across northern England. Elsewhere, scattered heavy showers, some with

hail and blunder. Some sunny spells for the afternoon for Northern

Ireland and north-west Scotland. Though cold in the wind, not quite

as cold along the eastern side as today. Friday brings further rain to

the north of England. Further south of that, some sun and still the

chilly wind. Temperature is heading up in south-east England. The first

to get the change that will change things for the weekend will see that

it's all about the wind direction. A warm flow from the continent on a

southeasterly breeze pushing the warm air northwards across the UK

over the weekend. Not wall-to-wall sunshine - some weather fronts close

to the UK threatens some with some rain but that's not set in stone.

Cold air from the sea into eastern Scotland and north-east England with

cloud. Elsewhere very breezy but when you get hazy