Most of the U.K. has seen a brief lull in unsettled weather with a fine day yesterday for many. Friday starts off on a promising note, but later today we will see the return of further unsettled weather from the Atlantic that will last through the weekend. It will also turn a little milder today, but even milder tomorrow with temperatures perhaps reaching 14C in the south both Saturday and Sunday, while turning colder across the north over the weekend, with a risk of snow for Scotland by Sunday.



For now, many areas start Friday on a dry and cold note with bright or clear skies, a frost and also fog patches. With some icy patches to watch out for on untreated wet roads. The coldest areas at dawn were NE Scotland, where Aboyne was at -5C and also across southern, central and eastern England, with -4C at Bournemouth Airport.

But across the far west, changes are already underway as cloudy skies and milder air arrive from the Atlantic, with rain and hill snow moving in across Ireland, N. Ireland and western Scotland this morning. This cloud and rain with strengthening southwesterly wind will gradually spread eastward through the rest of Friday, with sleet and snow over northern hills, though probably not reaching SE England and East Anglia until during the evening, while colder and clearer conditions with wintry showers arrive across the northwest.

Wind reaching gale force across exposed northern and western parts. Temperatures reaching 9C in London, Cardiff and Belfast, 8C in Manchester and 7C in Glasgow.