The Scottish Borders saw Severe flood warnings again on Wednesday as Hawick and Jedburgh flooded with homes having to be evacuated. Bell Bridge, a Grade Two listed bridge in Cumbria, collapsed yesterday, another casualty of this winters flooding. The Environment Agency for England and Wales keeps a LOW risk of flooding for inland Wales, Yorkshire and NW England during the next 3 days as the Atlantic continues to throw more and more weather systems across the UK.

Over the next few days the UK will have ice with snow showers, more heavy rain and gales possibly storm force winds in the far north to contend with. The end of January is looking very lively.

Thursday itself has a bit of a lull from actual weather fronts, just for a while. It will be blustery with more wintry showers over Scotland but many parts will see some bright and fine weather. Rain. Sleet and hill snow showers will continue to feed into western then central Scotland. There will be a fresh SW wind over Scotland, with a cold start and the risk of a patchy ice and frost in places. Temperatures will reach 5 to 7C in the sunnier east.



Weather type radar image from earlier this morning.

There is a scattering of showers over N.England, mainly of rain but some sleet and light snow over the Pennines. There will be a few more over Cumbria today but not heavy and most parts will see bright spells, sunshine in the east. There will be a brisk SW wind with temperatures of 7 to 9, after a nippy start.