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Feeling colder this weekend especially if you are stuck under gloomy skies

High pressure is keeping much of the UK weather steady and quiet. It will be mild and windy in the far northwest but colder air will arrive for Britain this weekend as the grey skies continue.


Issued: 16th January 2025 13:23
Updated: 16th January 2025 13:27

It is going to feel cold this weekend and much of the UK will continue with grey, gloomy skies. A pool of colder air will steer around the resident high pressure, northwards over Britain keeping daytime temperatures well down in single figures and often feeling like 3 or 4 Celsius. 


This high pressure has dominated the weather across Europe, west to east. Low pressures are running into northern Scandinavia and another one will develop in-situ over northern Africa and the western half of the Mediterranean. For the bulk of Europe, there is plenty of settled and dry weather but split between clear blue skies and winter sunshine or stubborn stratocumulus cloud and thick fog. The UK has seen a similar mix this week with fog warnings from the Met Office. However, at the edge of the high pressure, there are brisk southerly winds through Ireland and for western Scotland with a feed of milder air. Temperatures in the Highlands have passed 15C as the air dries and warms over the Scottish mountains.

A weather front will waver closer to NW Scotland during the weekend with patchy rain at times and persisting strong S/SW winds here. There will be moderate southerly winds along the west coast and for Northern Ireland always at the edge of the high pressure but for much of Britain light winds, even calm conditions will continue. The southeastern half of the UK will keep a blanket of grey cloud and gloomy skies. To the north and west, there will be lee breaks and brightness, even sunshine for Grampian, NE England and north Wales. However northern England could see fog forming on Saturday night if the skies have cleared by day. 

There isn’t any snow in the weekend forecast, and it’s not a northerly flow (or easterly) bringing us cold air. The continent is cold and air around this steady high pressure will pull up from the south. Milder air over the Atlantic will continue to flow northwards over Ireland. 

For Northern Ireland and western Scotland, it will be a balance of milder air lifting the temperature values but more of a breeze perhaps making it feel cooler outside. Belfast should reach 10C on Saturday (but feel like 7C) and 8C on Sunday. Glasgow should reach 9C (but feel like 6C in the breeze) then only 6C in the colder air on Sunday. 

For Cardiff and London, weekend temperatures will be around 4 to 6C but often feel more like 3C. For the Midlands on Sunday, Birmingham might only reach 3C and feel more like 0C. It could be a gloomy, cold January day. 


It won’t be chucking it down with rain, nor windy for most. It shouldn’t be icy or snowy just increasingly cold. Where the skies stay clear there could be a frost, over the Moors of the SW, the Welsh mountains, for the high ground of northern Egnland and sheltered northern and eastern Scotland early on Sunday. There will be hill fog and radiation fog in places, so lower visibility on some roads or for hill walkers.

Overall it’s a quiet weekend weather-wise. If the cloud breaks it won’t seem too bad but if the anticyclonic gloom continues, nearer to the European high pressure, that could subdue the next January weekend.

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