N.Ireland starts the day with a bit of mist and cloud but soon brighter spells and only light winds. A few showers may clip the east coast but it’s a mainly dry picture this morning. Temperatures will peak at 5 or 6C and through the afternoon the cloud will increase as the SE winds freshen. Rain is on the way.



Tonight the rain just keeps on going for E&NE Scotland. SE winds strengthen over N.Ireland and through the Irish Sea before midnight as the frontal rain band sweeps in. Heavy rain tonight for N.Ireland, SW England and Wales bringing the risk of localised surface water flooding. This rain then pushes over the rest of England adding to the flood waters of York, NE England and Tayside & Grampian. Tonight and to start Thursday there will be some horrible conditions on the roads with the rain, spray and strong winds.

Thursday brings further bands of wet weather in from the west, with more water on saturated ground. Southern Britain maybe manage 9 or 10C but for most it will be a cold day, with wintry bits over hills of N.England and N.Ireland as the rain band moves through, snow for the tops of Snowdonia early in the day and lying snow for the Scottish mountains, even N.Pennines.



Temperatures only a few degrees above freezing for N.Ireland and N.Britain. Once the rain band clears northwards there will be sunshine and clearer skies. It will be windy with a brisk SE wind, gales in the far north of Scotland, even severe gales here. Soon the winds veer to a fresh westerly, strong later around the Forth and off coast of NE England, the A1 won’t be very nice on Thursday evening. The band of rain should finally clear from NE Scotland during Thursday evening, wetting the Orkney to end the day.

A frost overnight for the northern half of the UK with lighter winds. Then a lively line of showers heads in from the Atlantic. Hefty downpours, gusty winds, sleet rain and hail with snow over the hills once more of N.Ireland, the Pennines and Southern Uplands. Timings on this band will need updating but it could bring some horrible weather to the Central Belt for rush hour. Wales will have a wet night, with showers still feeding in by dawn. The line of showers will move across England in the morning, with brighter skies either side and then something drier finally for eastern Britain. We then settle with a moderate SW wind and temperatures of 9 or 10 in the far south, 7 for Wales and central England but still chilly further north.



The weekend brings more wet weather but up from the SW this time, so a soaking for SW England and Wales once more, but with showers spreading inland, pushing N&E. There will be lengthy dry and bright spells in between so making it seem more cheery. Southern Britain could see 10C on Saturday, not bad The showery bands still bring the risk of a wintry mix, even for hills further south Saturday night. Sleetiness and wet snow higher up and feeling chilly on Sunday after a frost.