11/02/2014 BBC Weather

That is when the wind is going to pick up. Thursday looks like a

quieter day. Good evening, a roller-coaster ride

of weather continues across the British Isles. We want to get off,

but unfortunately we have got more white knuckle rides to come. This

area of low pressure is bringing wet and extremely windy weather. It

happens again on Friday with another deep low moving in from the

south-west. That means that potentially over the next five days

we could see as much a 60 - 80 millimetres of rainfall, among's

worth in just five days. Before that there are lots of tricky conditions

out there at the moment. We have got snow across Scotland and Northern

Ireland. As these showers pushed further inland and temperatures fall

away, we could see snow at lower levels as well. It is a similar

story for South Yorkshire and into Derbyshire and perhaps the Midlands.

Even if we do not get the snow, and we keep the showers, it will be a

cold night, so that could lead to icy stretches on the roads. That

will pale into insignificance because the wind is already picking

up and an intense band of rain continues to push in across the

country. This time it will be a bit more prolonged for tomorrow. The

wins either significant feature. There is an amber warning for the

gusts of wind. Let's look at the afternoon. In the Northern Isles and

the far north of Scotland it is quite quiet. Snow continues across

the mountains and sharp showers in northern Ireland and northern

England. The winds pick up into the North West and the South of Wales.

The band of rain is still clinging on to East Anglia and the Essex and

Kent coasts. Blizzard conditions are possible overnight in Scotland and

on the higher ground. By Thursday things potentially get a little

quieter. There will be some showers around, but wet and windy weather

set to return as we move towards Friday.