07/03/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Over the past week or so,

the weather has had a distinctly wintry flavour to it.

We've seen temperatures below average

and some outbreaks of snow as well.

To start this new week, we stick with that wintry theme at first.

Further ice and snow at times, but gradually things will start

to turn a little bit milder and we'll see outbreaks of rain.

So a bit unsettled, particularly through the middle of the week.

To start off Monday morning, a hard frost,

some icy stretches around too.

A cold northerly wind continues to blow sleet

and snow showers across Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk,

there could be a couple of centimetres here.

Further west also cloudy at times.

Parts of Wales and the south-west of England

with some wintry flurries.

But for most places, plenty of that crisp, cold sunshine.

Temperatures at best around 6 or 7 degrees.

Monday night looks like another cold one, again with a hard frost.

This approaching weather front will bring some icy conditions

as well as some hill snow initially,

which could be heavy across parts of Scotland and northern England too.

Another cold start to Tuesday with a risk of iciness around too.

Tuesday is dominated by the fact that we've got this front.

It's moving its way west to east gradually across the country.

Initially, it's going to be falling as snow over

the higher ground for Scotland and northern England.

As it heads its way eastwards, it's not particularly active.

It starts to fragment.

So, light and patchy rainfall, especially at lower levels.

Perhaps a little bit of hill snow still as it pushes in towards

the south-east.

Towards the north-west,

clearer conditions with a few scattered showers.

And temperatures perhaps just about nudging into double figures

towards the south-west.

Still around 7 or 8 for most of us.

Tuesday night into Wednesday,

we're watching this deepening area of low pressure.

Tight isobars around that as it moves into southern parts of the UK.

It's quite likely to bring a spell of windy and wet weather to some

southern, central and eastern parts before gradually easing away

towards the east later on in the day.

There could be a little bit of snow on the northern edge of that system,

mainly falling as rain though.

Again, temperatures on the cool side,

but not quite as cold as it has been over the past couple of days.

So, through the middle part of the week, things are looking unsettled.

We've got potentially some heavy rain,

especially towards some southern and eastern areas.

Windy too, but still some colder interludes

and the chance of some frostiness overnight.

But it's not really until Wednesday night and on into Thursday

that we start to see this milder air being imported from the south-west.

So through the day on Thursday, a warm front heads in,

bringing some rain to the west of the UK.

Further south and east, things should stay largely dry

and temperatures, in London for instance,

back up to around 11 degrees.

A different feel compared with the first part of the week.

On into Friday.

High pressure in the Atlantic starts to nudge in across the UK.

Still a lingering weather front, but things will start to

quieten down somewhat as we look towards the end of the week.

The chance of a little bit of rain in the north-west,

but for most of us, largely cloudy, mainly dry, 13 degrees or so.

Not feeling too bad as we head towards the end of the week.

On into next weekend as well, we're likely to see high pressure,

probably out towards the south-east of the UK and that's going to

lead to a south-westerly flow of reasonably mild air.

There is a smaller chance,

though, that this high pressure could become established

further north, up across Scandinavia,

which would lead to a colder flow of air piling in from the east.

But, either way, it does look like high pressure will be in charge.

So, gradually, things will quieten down.

It may feel a bit more spring-like as we head towards next weekend.

In the meanwhile, it's a wintry start to the week, rain at

times mid week, but things will turn milder and more settled later on.

We'll keep you up to date right here. Bye-bye.