12/12/2017 BBC Weather

towards the weekend with a return to

overnight frosts.

towards the weekend with a return to

overnight frosts. I will leave you

now with the national forecast.

Hello. Good evening. As we speak,

some of you are seeing rain rather

than snow. The headline maker

earlier in the day was just how cold

it was. It was a bone-chillingly

cold start. Now things have changed

and much of what you see here is

rain rather than snow. The snow

confined to the highest ground. We

are not quite done with our winter's

tale yet. As this weather moves to

the North Sea, behind it the

temperatures will dip away markedly

again. That's why The Met Office

have a widespread and wide-reaching

yellow warning for ice. Not going to

be too clever about it, but anywhere

north of the M4, with the exception

of the west of Scotland and Northern

Ireland, will have that risk of ice

even up to the north eastern quarter

of Scotland where that temperature

regime. Not a problem further west.

One of those starts to the day I am

afraid. Wet and windy, hill snow

around again. Similar prospects to

Northern Ireland and widely across

the western side of England and into

Wales. A damp start to the day. Some

of that rain falling into this

regime, two degrees only, that's why

we have the concerns about the ice.

You are not out of the woods further

east. The ground will already be wet

there and it gets wetter as this

band of weather moves further

towards the east. Some gusty winds

around those showers as well. Then

things turn brighter later in the

afternoon for some, particularly

northern and western parts. It's

going to be a milder feeling day for

many than was the case today.

Through the rush hour, just notice

what happens. Other belts of weather

move from west to east. There could

be some disruptive lying snow here

in time for the rush hour on

Wednesday evening. Then look at

this, Thursday morning what's going

on here? Northern Ireland, up into

Scotland. Northern parts of England.

More significant snow for perhaps to

low levels on a blustery sort of day

and no longer the eight, nine ten,

we are already much cooler at this

point. From there on, it gets cooler

too. We bend those isobars around so

the breezes run from north to west

across the British Isles on Friday.

That opens the door