It’s half-term holidays for some parts of the UK. This week’s weather is looking mixed. Not the brilliant sunshine of Saturday but Tuesday will give it a good go, away from eastern England. There will be cold air from the north but something milder from the southwest by Friday, which will make a real difference to how things feel next weekend.
Netweather Radar - Nippy start in Scotland on Monday morning with rain and snow showers for the NW, colder nights to come
Tuesday morning will be cold with a north to northwesterly wind and Wednesday morning, even colder with an easterly flow. This will bring a real chill to Northern Ireland but expect frost and ice for northern Britain with hardly any wind. Temperatures for inland Scotland could fall to -5 or -6, even colder over the snow fields.
If you are looking for UK snow, perhaps to entertain the children, there is a bit in the forecast for mid-February. The Scottish ski resorts have seen plenty of snow this year over at higher levels and there will be more snow showers in the northerly flow at the start of the week. Monday night into Tuesday, wintry showers will run down the east coast of England with snow for the North Yorkshire Moors.
As we move into the second half of this week, there is uncertainty for southern Britain. Incoming frontal rain could turn to snow later on Wednesday, and could be accompanied by strong winds. The cold air will be in place.
Developments here will need watching, with the possibility of more heavy rain, snow over the hills and possibly to lower levels with some disruptive winds. None of this would be good news if you have travel plans this week, nor for the areas with saturated ground. For now, there is low confidence around where the incoming low pressure will reach, and so its potential impacts.
Netweather Radar - rain showers on a blustery westerly wind to start the working week. Plenty of sunshine too
Monday
Southern Britain is seeing a sunny Monday but there has been a chilly start in the north with a few wintry showers. Clusters of showers will swirl across the UK today with a low pressure over the North Sea. Colder air will arrive from the northwest with the showers here, including a mix of icy rain, sleet and hill snow. Elsewhere, it will be a mixture of rain and bright or sunny spells with snow reaching the Southern Uplands and Cheviots by this evening. Temperatures will widely be around 6 to 8C but feeling cooler in the breeze and reaching 9 or 10C for southern England.
Tonight becomes dry, clear and cold for most. There will be a pulse of rain running down eastern Britain followed by a line of sleet and snow with fresh and gusty northerly winds into Grampian by midnight. This could bring some snow before dawn to the A1 in SE Scotland, perhaps NE England, as mentioned the North York Moors before it clears off into the North Sea.
Tuesday
Then we see sunshine. It will be a chilly start for Tuesday but fine and sunny. There will be a cold NW wind along the coast of eastern England, which will feel raw first thing. Little change until late afternoon when frontal rain reaches Cornwall, from a band ahead of the midweek low. High cloud will be spilling over the southwestern half of the UK, much like the change on Saturday, as the blue skies disappear and the sun turns milky through the day. Don’t be surprised to see the odd snow shower flutter by for the east coast of England, but this won’t amount to much with a brief ridge of high pressure. Also, wintry showers for the Northern Isles.
Where the skies stay clear, it will be a much colder night. For the southwest of England, it will be damp, cloudy and windy with a brisk E/SE wind.
Wednesday
Wednesday starts with this deep cold over northern Britain and chilly elsewhere. SW Britain will be damp and grey with a chilly easterly wind, although the air won’t be as cold here. Wet snow is likely over the Moors and the Brecon Beacons, with cloud extending over more of Wales and England. Further north, there will be more glorious sunshine.
This week starts with blustery showers from the Atlantic but sunny spells in between, which are hard to plan around, as they come and go. Will it Rain? Tuesday will see the most sunshine which lasts in the north into Wednesday,y although with colder nights. It will soon turn damp and blustery in the southwest and the low pressure in the south later on Wednesday needs watching. Will it Snow? Further updates on their way before the turn to milder air for the end of this week.
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