03/05/2012 BBC Weather

Good evening. It is going to be a little bit drier over the next few

days but it is not going to be any warmer. Temperatures today really

struggled under this thick blanket of cloud -- cloud across England

and the posts. There was some sunshine. In western Scotland, 21

degrees of the us. Elsewhere, single figures. These values will

be more typical in the days to come. In western Scotland this band of

rain sinks south, a weather front introducing cold air. Under the

cloud we have outbreaks of rain tonight across the Midlands and

Lincolnshire. The temperature tonight generally seven or eight

Celsius but it is going to get colder. It is not going to get much

brighter for Friday. A great day. Some sunny spells, perhaps along

the south coast of Wales and southernmost counties of England

but generally across the Midlands and East Anglia, a dull, cold and

damp picture. Some drier conditions for a time across northern England

but the band of rain sinks south into Northern Ireland. Brighter

skies across the far north but you will notice northerly winds

bringing a real chill and introducing much colder air, cold

enough for snow showers at relatively low levels across north-

east Scotland in the afternoon. The rain bands are chased southwards,

they tend to fragment. It is not particularly wet but it will be

great, a little bit of rain here and there. We may see temperatures

creeping into the teens but generally another cold day, eight,

nine, ten Celsius at best. The air is coming from the Arctic. You can

follow the isobars to the north. This weather front and a parcel of

this amount on Sunday it could provide up bricks of rain

especially on the south coast for a while. Another weather system

bringing wet weather across Scotland, bringing some snow.

Generally is -- Saturday is dry and bright, some sunny spells and a

touch of frost, temperatures reaching double figures. The frost

expands further on Saturday night. It could be as low as minus five

Celsius across northern England. Unusually cold start. A few showers

but many places looking drier, some cloud and sunny spells but

temperatures quite disappointing for the first weekend in May,