07/03/2018 BBC Weather

weekend. Thankfully not all weekend

long. Rain for us. Elsewhere in the

UK there is some snow in

long. Rain for us. Elsewhere in the

UK there is some snow in the

forecast once again.

We may have escaped the clutches of

last week's bitterly cold spell, but

the snow has not completely done

with us yet. No Beast from the East

this time, in fact a fairly

innocuous looking area of cloud that

has been pushing in from the

Atlantic. This is bringing some

outbreaks of rain. It has even

brought some thunder and lightning

across parts of Wales and the

south-west. It is as this runs into

what is relatively cold air that it

could start to bring some snow. The

further south you are, it will

mostly be rain. Pretty windy across

southern parts of England

particularly further north, for

Northern Ireland. Full Scotland,

clear spells with a scattering of

showers. Here, the potential for ice

as temperatures dipped below

freezing. The potential for

disruptive weather through the early

hours of Thursday really comes when

the wet weather meets the relatively

cold air to the north. We are

talking about parts of mid and North

Wales, especially over the hills. We

could see ten centimetres of snow.

Across the North Midlands and into

northern England particularly, we

might see snow not only over high

ground, even to low levels, places

like Manchester, Leeds, Durham, they

could see a couple of centimetres of

snow. Any accumulations of snow for

the Thursday morning rush hour could

cause some travel issues, so it is

worth staying tuned to your BBC

local radio station. A mixture of

rain, sleet and snow will clear away

fairly quickly tomorrow. What we

will be left with into the afternoon

is a lot of dry weather across the

country, spells of sunshine. Still

quite windy towards this out. Still

some showers pushing from the West,

with the high ground of Scotland

those showers could still be wintry.

Temperatures may be a little bit

down on where they have been today,

six or 10 degrees, not too bad

going. A cold start on Friday

morning, quite widespread frost,

some mist patches are possible. Then

we see a lot of sunshine. Still some

showers after the North West, wintry

over high ground. Then down to the

south, you can't have failed to have

noticed this, the wet weather

pushing through the Channel Islands

and into southern England and South

Wales by the end of the day. This is

what takes us into the weekend.

Friday night we push this frontal

system northwards, taking that

weather with it. No pressure in the

south-west, and that means we get a

southerly wind. That means we can

tap into mild air. Some parts of the

South could get up to 14 degrees.

With the mild weather we get