0:00:02 > 0:00:03Hello. We are not done with winter yet
0:00:03 > 0:00:06and those of you who live across the eastern half of the UK
0:00:06 > 0:00:08will know exactly what I'm talking about.
0:00:08 > 0:00:12This Weather Watchers picture from Friday afternoon in Newcastle
0:00:12 > 0:00:13really tells the scene -
0:00:13 > 0:00:16a light dusting of snow, a cold feel
0:00:16 > 0:00:19across the country and that story continues through the weekend.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21A lot of cloud around,
0:00:21 > 0:00:22the showers will be wintry in nature
0:00:22 > 0:00:24and the wind will strengthen as well,
0:00:24 > 0:00:26just making it feel even colder
0:00:26 > 0:00:27if that's possible.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Now we'll start off with
0:00:28 > 0:00:30some wintry showers stretching through
0:00:30 > 0:00:32eastern Scotland across the north-east of England
0:00:32 > 0:00:33and some of those will push
0:00:33 > 0:00:35a little bit further westwards
0:00:35 > 0:00:37through the course of the afternoon,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39something that we've not seen in recent days,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42so I suspect by three o'clock Saturday afternoon
0:00:42 > 0:00:44there's likely to be a few showers,
0:00:44 > 0:00:45showers chiefly of rain,
0:00:45 > 0:00:46across the West Country,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48but not a particularly warm feel
0:00:48 > 0:00:49to the day, 3 or 4 degrees.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51There'll be some showers or sleet
0:00:51 > 0:00:53and snow mixed in there across Wales
0:00:53 > 0:00:55and really it will be rain
0:00:55 > 0:00:56close to the coastline
0:00:56 > 0:00:57in the south-east corner,
0:00:57 > 0:00:58but a cold feel when you add on
0:00:58 > 0:01:00the strength of that wind.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01Gales not out of the question,
0:01:01 > 0:01:02with further snow showers
0:01:02 > 0:01:04across the north of England.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Northern Ireland and north-west Scotland,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08you will see the best of any brightness,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10but again into eastern Scotland,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12those nagging nuisance showers
0:01:12 > 0:01:13set to continue and in fact
0:01:13 > 0:01:15they'll enhance through the night
0:01:15 > 0:01:16on Saturday into Sunday,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18across the Pennines and the Peak District
0:01:18 > 0:01:20for a time, yet more accumulations
0:01:20 > 0:01:22of snow likely, but then as we go
0:01:22 > 0:01:24through Sunday, a brisk easterly wind,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26but it's likely that we'll see
0:01:26 > 0:01:28the snow showers turning back to rain.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30To the north and south perhaps
0:01:30 > 0:01:31something a little bit drier
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and perhaps brighter into the north-west,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35but still not particularly warm.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Now as we move out of Sunday into Monday,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41we will start to see the isobars squeezing up,
0:01:41 > 0:01:42the wind strengthening again,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44but starting to swing round to a south-easterly,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46so there is a glimmer of hope
0:01:46 > 0:01:48in the story as we look further ahead.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50On Monday, there'll be a little more
0:01:50 > 0:01:51in the way of sunshine
0:01:51 > 0:01:54breaking up that cloud, that breeze,
0:01:54 > 0:01:55a little bit of drier air, not...
0:01:55 > 0:01:58not quite as cold as it has been,
0:01:58 > 0:02:005 to 8 degrees the high.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02As we move out of Monday into Tuesday,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05we'll start to see the winds really slowly pivoting around from
0:02:05 > 0:02:08a south-easterly eventually to a southerly direction.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10This weather front likely to threaten
0:02:10 > 0:02:11into the south-west.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12It might bring some cloud
0:02:12 > 0:02:14and outbreaks of rain,
0:02:14 > 0:02:15but it'll start to, again,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17bring a slightly less cold feel
0:02:17 > 0:02:20across the country, 6 to 11, double digits
0:02:20 > 0:02:22in the far south-west.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24As we move into Wednesday,
0:02:24 > 0:02:25more of a southerly flow,
0:02:25 > 0:02:26a good deal of dry weather
0:02:26 > 0:02:28is expected in the story,
0:02:28 > 0:02:29lighter winds, so if you get
0:02:29 > 0:02:31some sunshine coming through,
0:02:31 > 0:02:3310, 12 degrees will certainly feel
0:02:33 > 0:02:35much better than it has done of late.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37So, as we go on to the latter stages of the week,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40it looks likely... it's going to be a slow process
0:02:40 > 0:02:43but this milder air will push right across the country
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and we've lost that bitterly cold
0:02:45 > 0:02:47wintry flavour.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48As we look further afield,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50the six- to ten-day period,
0:02:50 > 0:02:51that area of high pressure
0:02:51 > 0:02:52that's so been dominant
0:02:52 > 0:02:54just recently, if that sits close
0:02:54 > 0:02:56towards France, there's the potential
0:02:56 > 0:02:59of allowing those areas of low pressure to move in
0:02:59 > 0:03:00and that will bring some wet weather,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02so something perhaps a little more mobile,
0:03:02 > 0:03:04a little bit more unsettled,
0:03:04 > 0:03:06however there is the potential
0:03:06 > 0:03:08and this is the less likely scenario,
0:03:08 > 0:03:09but if that high pressure drifts
0:03:09 > 0:03:11a little bit further north
0:03:11 > 0:03:12and just centres itself more across
0:03:12 > 0:03:14England and Wales, the low pressures
0:03:14 > 0:03:16will skip to the extreme north
0:03:16 > 0:03:17and we're likely
0:03:17 > 0:03:19to stay drier yet again.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22That will cause a problem with some early morning frost and fog,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25but once that lifts, we could see some dry weather
0:03:25 > 0:03:27continuing into the longer
0:03:27 > 0:03:29six- to ten-day period.
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Take care.