The 1st of March brought some very mild air, a real change after the cold frosty mornings. The top temperature on Monday was 15.6C in Worcestershire! However, overnight we’ve seen colder air arriving from the NW and things turning wintry with sleet, snow and ice about to start Tuesday. There are already strong winds from #StormJake over Eire heading towards the SW Britain today and the next few days will stay chilly with frosty and wintry showers.



A low pressure centre near to the Northern Isles is swirling its weather fronts over the UK with trough lines bringing heavier showers down in the NW flow. A secondary low pressure centre has formed near the Irish Sea and strong winds are wrapped around this with more wintry showers. There is rain, sleet and snow in these bands with ice for N.Britain and N.Ireland. There is falling snow over N.Ireland, SW Scotland and NW.England with sleet and rain mixed into the showery bits over Wales, the West Country, N.England. The heaviest mix of sleet/snow and rain will follow the secondary low pressure this morning as it moves from the Irish Sea across Wales and NW England over the Midlands, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, bringing only sleety rain at most to SE and SW Britain with some wet snow over the hills.



Radar at 0810 this morning - click here to view the live radar.

Drier brighter weather appears for a time behind this, for N.England, much of Scotland and N.Ireland before another heavier band of wintry weather appears from the NW. This will bring further sleety showers into N.Ireland and wintry showers for Scotland with further accumulations of snow over the hills and mountains. This will be over eastern Scotland this afternoon and could cause some disruption on the roads for a time. As the sleety mix clears East Anglia mid afternoon around the secondary low, further rain and wintry showers feed into Wales and SW England. It will be a mixed day, feeling cold at only 4 to 6C.



Met Eireann named Storm Jake yesterday for the overnight gales for Ireland and said today “Storm Jake will continue to feed down a core of strong to gale force winds westerly this morning - stormy in fact for coastal areas of the west and southwest” The westerly winds are also making a windy, miserable start for coastal Wales and SW England with gusts over 60mph. The strong winds spread over Wales, the Midlands and southern Britain towards lunchtime, before veering to the NW this afternoon with further strong gusts for SW England. Irish Sea crossings could be lively this evening in the strong to gale force NW winds.



SW Britain stays blustery overnight but elsewhere the weather begins to settled with winds easing, temperatures falling and the wintry showers slowly fading. Bands of rain, sleet and snow will still be making their way SE from Scotland, over N.England down through East Anglia, with further showers from Wales into central southern Britain with less risk of snow.