It’s cold out there this morning, many places below freezing and several spots throughout Britain and Ireland down near -5C, -6C with a few -7s. It’s frosty and there is a risk of ice for Scotland, N.Ireland and NW England where there are already wintry showers.

Again for much of the UK it will be a sunny, fine but cold winter’s day. Dry with only light winds so not feeling too bad once the sun gets rid of the early morning frost. Mostly the breeze is from the NW with a moderate NW wind over Aberdeenshire and a moderate NE wind over Cornwall.



Along the English Channel, there is more cloud and this may throw the odd shower over coastal counties of southern England at lunchtime and this afternoon, although the emphasis is on bright and dry weather. Temperatures will reach 7 or 8C. Across the rest of England and Wales temperatures will struggle only 4 to 7C.

The early pocket of wintry showers over Cumbria, bringing snow to the Fells will fade as it heads towards Merseyside late morning with just a light rain shower. A line of wintry showers is just heading into the north coast and will make its way SE this morning. This will include rain, sleet and hill snow, hail too and will clear Co.Down mid afternoon as wintriness reaches the isle of Man. Temperatures of only 5 or 6C with sunny spells reappearing after the showery band. The overnight snow for SW Scotland has moved southwards into Cumbria but there is another cluster of wintry showers for Argyll, heading for Ayrshire and clipping W.Strathcylde. Ice will be a problem on the roads as these move through with some snow above 100m. Further sleet and snow showers feed into northern Scotland from the NW, temperatures of 3 to 5C.