22/02/2018 BBC Weather

had through the weekend,

particularly into next week. More

particularly into next week. More

details in a national forecast with

Louise Lear.

Good evening. We've seen some

record-breaking cold this winter in

North America but that changed on

Wednesday, we had some

record-breaking heat. The reason

being a warm, moist air coming up

through the Gulf of Mexico, right

across the East Coast, so

temperatures for New York City

soared on Wednesday. Highs of 26

degrees, the warmest late February

day for over 88 years. To add insult

to injury lets move closer to home

across the pond and talk about how

cold it is going to be for us over

the next few days. Still under the

influence of that high-pressure,

winds and air coming from Siberia,

bitterly cold across Europe. As we

head into next week it's going to

get colder still for us across the

UK, bitterly cold winds, widespread

hard frosts and yes, even the chance

of some snow. Let's get closer to

home to the here and now. Through

tonight it looks as though it will

be a quiet end to the day with clear

skies. Temperatures are likely to

fall away with the exception of

cloud through Northern Ireland and

western Scotland so here we keep the

Greens, the blues denoting a

widespread frost right across the

country. A cold start for money.

With a little more cloud just

spilling in off the North Sea we

could have one or two isolated

showers here first thing. A little

bit more cloud through central and

eastern England. We keep the crowd

in Northern Ireland. Sandwiched in

between the two, it's a sandwich of

sunshine. It will feel quite chilly,

5-7 at the very best. As we move out

of Friday we still have the area of

high pressure that's going to be

influencing the story for quite some

time. Sitting across Scandinavia, so

the cold air starting to push around

that high all the way across dry

continental Europe, so it's not

going to warm up, so that means on

the exposed these sides it's going

to feel chilly. Lots of sunshine to

start the weekend after a frosty

start, not a bad story. Quite

acquired story. Providing you have a

few extra layers on it should not be

too bad with the sunshine coming

through, 4-7 across the country. It

will be a case of spot the

difference on Sunday, really. Dry,

settled, sunny but cold, colder

still on Monday. Through the latter

stages of Monday there's a potential

for snow showers. The snow showers

look likely to be more widespread as

we go from Tuesday