02/04/2012 BBC Weather

After the summer-like warmth of last week, it is a dip back into

winter for many of us over the next 36 hours. We are already there in

Scotland, with a Met Office warning out for heavy snow. Expect travel

disruption through the night and into the morning, particularly

across the higher routes, the Anine and the Grampians. We will see snow

into lower levels at times, also across parts of the central belt to

the east and the Edinburgh area. The saving grace might be a bit of

warmth in the ground. Some of that snow will melt as it hits the

tarmac. For northern England, it is a generally cloudy start, with

outbreaks of rain. A few showers through the Midlands and East

Anglia, but much of central and southern England have a dry start.

Bit more clout than we saw this morning. So it will not be quite as

cold as this morning. A bit of brightness through South Wales.

Prior to the north, with outbreaks of rain. The winds are westerly at

this stage. The snow to the South of Scotland will have east across

the North. There is an ice risk here. There is an increasingly

strong and bitter north-east wind pushing into Northern Ireland. But

there will be sunshine at times, particularly to the West. A coating

of snow is possible in the north of England. But across the rest of

England and Wales, more cloud and outbreaks of rain. Some will stay

dry in the south, but colder further north of, and made to feel

even more so by the wind. But wind hits the rest of the country during

Tuesday night into Wednesday. Temperatures will drop overnight.

Clearer conditions further north, with a risk of ice and temperatures

close to freezing for much of England and Wales to begin

Wednesday. There will be a mixture of rain, sleet and hill snow,