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Yep pretty decent weather for two days at least, not bad considering how showery it's been in the previous few days. Chilly start but the sun is gaining strength all the time. Green shoots sprouting forth on the garden hedges and hawthorns about to announce their arrival. Cherry blossoms already in on the act. Although spring could still be on hold for most of next week, it will god willing eventually explode into life, in hopefully my favourite of all months.... May!

Appears it was a genuine accident with the cargo ship suffering a power-cut prior to the impact. Don't know much about ships but it could have affected its steering perhaps? Mayday call was made which thankfully stopped more traffic passing over the bridge. Thoughts go out to the bridge workers caught up in it. Weather wise a good day after yesterday's drab affair. I would like more of these slow southerly lows that take an interminable age to reach our parts. We usually get away with the best of the days weather before it eventually crawls north. Trade-off in the summer if it's a thundery low...but as for now the south can keep the rain.

Decent start to the day here for a change... the wind has calmed down a bit and the sun showing its face more. First use of the bicycle for a short excursion to take advantage of the springlike conditions. Sadly the latest forecast is for tomorrows rain in the west to make more progress and sit over us according to the met....only yesterday the BBC were suggesting it would stay well out to the west. Easter looking dodgy... no surprise for being in March. Next year it will be almost a month later. Why does the date of Easter move around? - BBC Bitesize WWW.BBC.CO.UK In 2024, Easter is on Sunday 31 March. But in 2025, it will be on Sunday 20 April. Why is that?

Grey leaden skies for the foreseeable it appears to be looking at the forecast. Not raining here at the moment but it won't be long before it sets in again. The 'at least it will be mild' brigade looking strong today but at least it saves on the energy bills. Anything remotely cold and snowy looks to be at the bottom of the wishing-well at the moment. Roll on Spring...dreaming of a warm, sunny low 20's in mid May....nature springing into life.

Bit naff today, a non-event here, bits and pieces of sleet/wet snow but nothing to cause too much disruption to traffic - probably for the best in some ways. This was the best I could do on my deliveries.... up near Strinesdale/Moorside - even at 300m+ above sea level it was still a slushy looking scene. Anything below this was just going through an instant dying metamorphosis from solid to liquid on impact. Home now and easterly winds feel quite raw, lots of cold rain teasing us from the south.

Just pure cold wet rain here, not even sleet. Just heading out to work (driving job) so in some ways quite relieved due to our nations complete inability to get the network moving in anything near a cm in depth. GM Shield doesn't look to be working now it's pure rain.

I expect the GM Snow shield will put paid to anything seriously wintry in my area, which is a shame because I think everything will be conducive for quite a decent spell of snow but alas my part of Oldham is more towards Failsworth which shares the M postcode rather than 'Black Chew Head' (542 m) which will probably get buried...both areas share the OL postcode but may as well be in different countries never mind counties! Still not to far to travel to see a bit of wintry wonderland.

Another one in the 'winds feel stronger' than Storm Isha camp...the trees in the back certainly dancing & swaying to a faster tempo. Looking at Wind Map - Britain WWW.XCWEATHER.CO.UK Mobile Current Wind / Weather observations and forecast. Providing near real time weather maps of wind strength and direction across the UK the winds have a more westerly bearing than the south westerly of Storm Isha so for my parts a lot less sheltered.

A mini squall has just passed through giving the strongest gust of winds so far but nothing too extreme...a raging south westerly will always affect west facing coastal areas more than those sheltered inland. Looks particularly dicey for the red warning in North Scotland

Yep could be quite 'wild' later afternoon and overnight. Put some spare flagstones on top of bins because they are the only items that really go walkabout from a windy westerly. The back garden is quite sheltered...a 20mph breeze from the east and it's a different story...all hell breaks loose.

A sprinkling of the fairy dust here in early hours...just turned the ground white nothing substantial. Still sub zero, but the last vestiges of this cold spell playing out now.

BBC weather app says -3 by 5pm but then only a fall of 2° to -5 under clear skies by 7am tomorrow? They could be right but I'm expecting a lower minima than that. Definitely the coldest night of this week long artic blast to come. Not expecting much wintry precip to fall now before the Atlantic westerlies invade at the weekend

Yes a few flakes dancing in the air...a little bit of wintry precipitation spawning south of the main band to the north. The sweet spot at the moment appears to be Red Rose county - Lancaster.

Have a cm or so of lying snow here, but most of the precipitation appears to be to the north...good news for Lancashire and Pennine way villages. Happy with what we've received here at relatively low level...might scrape a few last wintry dregs overnight as the band pushes through to the south....then the big freeze part 2.

Light snow falling has left a white covering everywhere here. Radar looks interesting out west, still -2.

Just had a wander outback and the cold feels different tonight....heavy, pervasive and the type that clings too you... must be the polar air in situ. Expect a rapid fall in overnight temps. Local lake already showing signs today of a crispy icy top... might thicken in next few days. As for ..? I'll only be certain...if & when it's falling.

Looking like a proper wintry week next week, the temperatures will be on our side barely above zero during the days and quite a few below at night. Happy that we've got potential snow from a North-North Westerly pepping up off the Irish sea instead of the torture of watching a low from the south west making painful progress and instigating a snow shield in my parts. Fingers crossed most of us will see a bit of snow falling next week

As others have mentioned today it feels like it should do at this time of the year....Chilly! Chris Fawkes to do all this and next weeks BBC weather forecasts please... "...and it's next week things could get really interesting" instead of some other more sombre forecasters that always feel like they need to apologise when forecasting wintry weather. Looking like a traditional battleground scenario next week , something to hark back to the 80's. Still lots of clarification to get through this week to see out the specifics play out.

Heavy showers are coming more from a westerly direction now, so SW wind shield has been breached and they'll no doubt pile in from now until 2024!!...thankfully not a full year to wait. The models will produce lots of drama from now until next week... but it will get a little colder...that's as far as I'm throwing my hat. BBC forecast seems to indicate Cold and Dry...that'll do...that'll do.

Bright start and even the sun made an appearance for the first time in what's felt like a lifetime, but it still shy at this time of the year and quickly went back into the shadow of the rolling clouds now filtering in. Expect as per the weather warning for the last day of 2023 to go downhill now with rain never far away. Happy New Year one-and-all.

Thankfully most of the rain today has been kept out to the west thanks to the southerly feed having to cope with the welsh mountains and then the Gtr Mcr shield so not too bad here if a little overcast. A squall-line smashes through everything though and it's about to move through the region in the next few hours. It will be quite wet for a time. Colder next week, even more promising from next weekend perhaps...but a slow burner. Not often places in a line from Cumbria to Devon experience the same type of weather at roughly the same time - a long trailing squall-line.

Absolute sucker my area for rain today...seem to be giving a little energy boost as they travel down the eastbound section of the M62! Ground is sodden. Was hoping for a festive bike ride boxing day but even if the day is dry the ground certainly won't be.

All the best

Yep a howling, gusty and persistent wind all day from the early hours. Well forecasted... not an easy day for landing planes that's for sure. My main back garden is East facing so thankfully furniture & bins quite sheltered from the North westerly. Not the best day for doing any festive shopping. Online wins on a day like today.

Light levels so poor this morning my back garden cam is still in infra red (night mode)...crazy, but alas...one more day and then the days will get longer. A dull, wet at times & windy theme for the next few days, and temps above or around average. Bog standard.