14/02/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Some interesting and quite uncertain developments later on this week,

but for the time being, it's reasonably straightforward.

And I've got good news if you like bright, crisp, sunny weather,

because over the next couple of days at least,

there'll be plenty of sunshine after a rather frosty start.

This'll make a welcome change, I'm sure, for many,

after all the rain we've had recently.

Might be a cloudy, damp start across some southern areas,

but things will improve here.

A getting-better story. Already sunshine further north.

Most of us, by the end of the day, will see plenty of blue sky.

Further wintry showers, sleet and snow showers,

for the east of Scotland, running into north-east England

on a brisk and cold wind.

4 to 8 degrees, north to south, the chill accentuated by that wind,

which will continue to feed wintry showers

down across central and eastern Scotland, parts of northern England,

as far south as the Midlands and East Anglia, I think,

as we get into the early hours of Monday morning,

so watch out for ice.

Elsewhere, frost is the name of the game. Quite a hard frost.

Just watch how the chart turns increasingly blue

as we get into the early hours of Monday.

You'll be scraping the windscreen, for sure.

Quite a severe frost.

Across the Highlands of Scotland,

we've got snow cover in rural areas in particular.

You could get as low as -8, -10 degrees.

The sleet and snow showers will continue to feed down

the eastern side of the country on Monday.

Rain or sleet near the coast.

But go any distance inland, we could see a covering of snow,

a few centimetres up over the high ground, North York Moors.

Down across parts of East Anglia and the far south-east,

also some wintry showers expected, feeling cold in that brisk wind.

Watch out for ice.

Further west, a lot of sunshine, I think, from the word go,

and for the majority, it'll be a nice day, albeit a chilly one.

If you wear plenty of layers out in the sunshine,

out of the breeze it should feel very nice indeed.

It's never going to get all that warm after that frosty start.

3 to 8 degrees, north to south.

And we go into another hard frost, I think, on Monday night,

courtesy of this ridge of high pressure.

That'll kill off the showers.

And then we look to the west

with this set of weather fronts bringing a change in the weather,

with the prospect of increasing cloud, increasing wind,

and some wet weather getting into Northern Ireland

and the north-west of Scotland through the day.

Quite a contrast north-west to south-east,

because the more southern and eastern areas,

after that frosty start, will have another fine day.

These weather fronts are going to try and bring some milder air in,

but just watch how the mild air gets squeezed out from either side

by the colder air.

That gives us quite an interesting scenario,

because as that front tries to push its way down across the country,

there's a good chance as that cold undercuts it,

some of that rain could well start to turn to snow,

particularly on the back edge.

Parts of central and southern Scotland, northern England,

Wales, the Midlands, and maybe some eastern counties

could see some snow through Wednesday night

into Thursday morning - watch this space.

It does look as if that front will clear away,

the skies will brighten,

and then we're into a run of brisk and quite chilly

west or north-westerly winds and further wintry showers

across the high ground of north-west Britain.

Looking further ahead towards the end of the week,

it does look as if another set of weather fronts

will then start to come in off the Atlantic.

They look like bringing some rain,

maybe a little bit of snow on the leading edge.

But it does look as if for a time, at least, through next weekend,

we're going to see some milder air spreading across the country.

Temperatures will be on the rise.

How long that lasts is another matter.

You can see some blues following on behind.

To sum up next weekend, yes, a change.

Milder spell, for sure. Quite windy, though.

And we'll all see some pretty wet weather, too.

That's it. I'll update you again this time tomorrow.