There has been snow excitement for parts of eastern Britain Sunday into Monday as wintry showers fed in off the North Sea and continue to push southwards on cold Northerly winds. “The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow”. I only saw hail yesterday being too near to the coast in SE Scotland but just a mile or so inland the hills are white. Even to low levels in SE England, there was a dusting in places but the showers missed many.

For most today, it’s dry and bright but cold. The main feed of showers is still off the North Sea with the radar showing snow showers for Grampian, NE and eastern England and East Anglia. The Hebrides are also see wintry showers coming down from the north. It’s another cold start, although not as cold as at the weekend when Braemar saw -14.1C overnight. There is frost and ice about so slippery conditions especially when combined with the wintry bits.



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High pressure is building bringing settled conditions for the start of the week as the wintry showers fade, last from East Anglia. The nose of high pressure will just hold on for SE Britain, probably a good part of England but a deep area of low pressure over Iceland will push weather fronts bringing wind and rain towards the UK from the NW. So a milder interlude for Tuesday before colder air returns for a few days to end the working week. There will be more wintry bits about but mainly as sleet, with new lying snow for the Scottish mountains.

Today , Northern Ireland and Scotland start with very light winds, whereas eastern and southern England are feeling the effects of the fresh North wind. Winds gradually ease today for NW England and Wales by lunchtime but not until this evening for the SE. After the chilly start temperatures rise to 4 or 5C, N.Ireland up to 7C and not feeling too bad. 4C in the brisk north wind will remind you it’ mid February even with the sunshine.

Tonight temperatures fall widely below zero for Britain. N.Ireland will see high cloud coming in from the NW as a southerly wind begins to pickup, later in the night turning blustery for Scotland. For England and Wales and eastern/southern Scotland there will be a widespread frost with a risk of inland fog for southern Britain.