A look at the cold weather which is set to return after the rain and gales of midweek. Snow showers are likely for some with a brisk cold wind
The first half of this week will be mild with temperatures in double figures in a brisk SW wind. We'll see a spell of wet weather for western Britain and Northern Ireland with strong, gusty winds across the UK, even gales in places midweek. As the low pressure responsible finally pulls away over Scandinavia, the UK once more finds itself in a cold NW then maybe a northerly flow, from the Arctic.
The focus of the wintry showers starts for the far northwest on Thursday spreading to other parts of north & west UK by Thursday night. There could be horrendous conditions for western Scotland on Thursday night with blowing snow and potentially blizzard conditions.
WIntry showers, of sleet, hail and hill snow continue through Friday, perhaps flurries and dustings reaching the hills of northern England too. The brisk NW winds will keep the feed of snow showers for northern Scotland and feed them right down through the North Channel too. In a NW wind showers can funnel through the "Cheshire Gap" filtering right through the Midlands in a distinct line. Either side, nothing but along the convergence line there can be decent snowfall.
If there is enough of a shift from NW'ly to northerly wind at the weekend, then snow showers will once more run down eastern Britain. It will be a similar setup to last week with showers clipping western Wales, maybe Cornwall and Co Londonderry and Co Tyrone still seeing some showers. Grampian would get more snow and lines could run down NE and eastern England. We'll have to watch the forecast this week to see if it does tip that far to get a true northerly
Either way, it will be much colder, there will be frost and ice and ad real chill in the wind.
