:00:00. > :00:00.cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture.
:00:00. > :00:09.Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we
:00:10. > :00:16.have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and
:00:17. > :00:19.not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud,
:00:20. > :00:24.there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance.
:00:25. > :00:28.That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you can see from
:00:29. > :00:33.the picture, there was a lot of cloud feeding in and that pegged
:00:34. > :00:36.temperatures down into single figures, because there is
:00:37. > :00:41.increasingly cold air heading in this direction on a cold and fairly
:00:42. > :00:44.strong wind. Tonight that wind will continue to deliver wintry showers,
:00:45. > :00:48.particularly close to the east coast, a mixture of rain and sleet
:00:49. > :00:52.along the coast. Inland some snowfall and wherever you are it's a
:00:53. > :00:57.cold night with temperatures around freezing. Tomorrow we have the cold
:00:58. > :01:02.wind. Still wintry showers down the east coast. Generally a lot of cloud
:01:03. > :01:07.but out west there will be some sunshine, wherever you are it's
:01:08. > :01:11.going to feel cold. We will see heavy showers across the northern
:01:12. > :01:13.Isles tomorrow afternoon. And across mainland Scotland down the east
:01:14. > :01:21.coast we will see showers continuing. A mixture of rain and
:01:22. > :01:24.sleet but inland we will see another couple of centimetres of snow, maybe
:01:25. > :01:29.over higher ground in north-east England and rain, sleet and snow in
:01:30. > :01:32.the showers across the south-east but temperatures just two or three
:01:33. > :01:36.and despite more brightness and sunshine out west, even here it's
:01:37. > :01:40.going to be a cold feeling day. Through tomorrow night and into
:01:41. > :01:44.Friday more of the same. We keep the wind and showers down the east
:01:45. > :01:48.coast. The increasing chance these will fall as snow as they move
:01:49. > :01:52.further inland. There could be a snow flurry just about anywhere on
:01:53. > :01:57.Friday. Best of the brightness in the west. But Friday will be a
:01:58. > :02:05.particularly cold day, three, four, five at best. Then into the weekend,
:02:06. > :02:11.high pressure still in place across Scandinavia continuing to bring us
:02:12. > :02:15.this wind and snow showers. Could be snow even at low lechls. We keep a
:02:16. > :02:19.lot of cloud: By the end of the weekend a chance that temperatures
:02:20. > :02:24.in the south might begin to move upwards because of a subtle shift in
:02:25. > :02:26.the wind direction, more of a South Easterly wind. That might bring
:02:27. > :02:27.something less cold for