03/12/2013 BBC Weather

Good evening. Big changes over the next few days. It has been great for

many of us recently and tomorrow it will brighten up quite nicely with

some winter sunshine for us to enjoy. On Thursday we have got

severe gales in the forecast and that cold air sticks around into

Friday. To get the sunshine we have to clear the skies and that process

is already underway. It is behind that we see the clear skies

developing. Quite cold across northern England, Northern Ireland

and Scotland. Maybe a few icy patches in places. Further south it

should be frost free with a lot of cloud and rain moving in. A

disappointing start to the day with leaden skies. But the rain is not

too heavy. A bit of a damp journey to work. The rain moves away from

the south of Wales in the morning. In northern England it is a lovely

start to the day with crisp, winter sunshine. It is sunny to for the

south and east of Scotland, but breezy in the West and it will be

wintry on the hills. Showers in the north and the west of the UK and

wintry over the hills. By early afternoon most of the rain should

have gone and the cloud follows suit. Then we see sunshine coming

out across pretty much all parts of the UK, except in the north of

Scotland. Temperatures stay in single figures. In the evening light

winds and clear skies mean we see frost is developing in the south of

England. Further north the winds keep on picking up and we have a

winter storm heading our way. It is going to be very windy indeed. These

are the gusts of wind. Maybe 80 miles an hour on the coasts of the

north and west of Scotland. Travel disruption is quite likely. A band

of rain is moving south and behind that there is some cold air. You can

see how the cold air sticks around for many northern and eastern areas

into Friday.