27/12/2013 BBC Weather

Good evening. What a weekend it has been. Rather while. This was the

huge Catherine wheel of a storm that affected us today, particularly in

northern areas, where it is still blowing a good old gale over

Scotland with gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour. Gradually easing down

through the early hours but pretty wet here as well. Elsewhere,

quieter. Still showers across western areas but many of us will

end the night on a quiet note. With a lot of moisture on the ground we

could see some slippery surfaces first thing in the morning. Saturday

will be a different sort of day - bright and breezy for many of us.

But there will be lines of showers pushing in on the breeze and still

very windy for a time across the far north. More clout around with

prolonged outbreaks of rain. In fact, in the middle of the

afternoon, this band of rain pushes southwards again, with Hill Snow,

too. Showers for Northern Ireland but the wind is not as strong. A lot

of sunshine across central and eastern areas with a line of showers

moving up the Bristol Channel. We have to keep our eye on these

showers moving across Essex and Kent. They could actually be more of

a future for a time through tomorrow evening. Still some showers out west

but the main story from Saturday into Sunday is clearing skies with

widespread frost to start the day. However, Sunday looks like a lovely

day for most of us. Bright, crisp, lots of sunshine with cloud doubling

up later across western areas and a sign of things to come, because it

is a brief interlude as it gets stormy again next week. -- cloud

bubbling up.