More showers affecting eastern parts today and tomorrow but then we need to look out toward the Atlantic for our weather.
Pressure remains high to the North and low to the South giving an easterly airflow across the country although, by Tuesday, the weather will be changing as Atlantic systems begin to move in. These will bring wet and windy weather by mid-week and eventually much milder conditions particularly to the West, where gales will become severe, perhaps with damaging storm force gusts. For the meantime though, we keep an East wind that continues to feel rather raw.
Today most parts keep a lot of cloud although there'll be some sunny intervals, with the best of these in sheltered western areas and more particularly over the West of Scotland where most places will have a fine day. There'll also be a fair amount of dry weather elsewhere, but to the East of the Pennines, across East Scotland, Sussex, Kent and over parts of Northern Ireland there's already a scattering of showers.
These locally could briefly be quite sharp giving hail and will continue through the day, so you'll need to keep a look out for them especially in central and eastern areas, with a few too perhaps affecting North West England for a while.
After the showers and storms of the past few days, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands see an improvement with brighter conditions and only isolated showers today. The far South will also be brighter, although to the South and East of London the showers may tend to become more widespread later. It'll be mild in the South West and across the Channel Islands where the thermometer should reach 10 to 12C, but elsewhere a raw mostly light or moderate East or North East wind will prevent temperatures from rising much above 6 to 9C.
Little change is expected after dark when central and eastern areas continue to see a few showers particularly towards the coast that could be wintry on higher hills. The South East together with Essex and Suffolk will also continue to see some showers, but elsewhere they'll be isolated. In the West, in particular, skies will break sufficiently to give clear spells, with a touch of frost mostly over sheltered parts of North and West Scotland, Northern Ireland, North West England and West Wales. There could also be pockets of frost elsewhere where skies clear for any length of time, but in most parts, there should be too much cloud for this. It'll continue to feel quite raw though in a mostly light or moderate East or North Easterly wind, with lowest temperatures mainly in the range 0 to 5C.
Conditions remain much the same into Monday, with central and eastern areas continuing to see the bulk of the cloud and a few showers into the working week. Across the South East, these could be quite frequent at first giving local hail, before fading towards dusk.
Elsewhere it'll be mainly dry, with the best of the sunny spells again over sheltered parts of West Scotland and also across, Northern Ireland, North West England, Wales and the South West. It'll continue to feel quite raw in a light or moderate East to North Easterly breeze, with top temperatures mostly between 6 and 9C. In the far South West and across the Channel Islands though where winds will be light it'll be somewhat milder, with 10 or 11C more likely here.
After dark remaining showers fade and with skies breaking more widely, it'll soon turn quite cold. A light East or South Easterly breeze will allow a slight frost and perhaps some mist or fog patches to form in rural areas where skies clear for any length of time, with lowest temperatures mostly in the range -1 to +2C.
Later in the night, however, winds will be freshening and cloud increasing over Northern Ireland, and towards Cornwall, ahead of Atlantic systems moving in from the South West, that'll be bringing that promised change to milder but wet and windy weather by mid-week.