Rain For Many Today, Drier & Brighter Sunday This weekends weather will be a tale of two halves, with many places cloudy with outbreaks of rain today. But Sunday should be drier and sunnier for most. Mondays looking mostly dry and bright too, so a two-day respite, before rain returns from the west across most areas on Tuesday - with further spells of rain or showers for the rest of the week. Yesterday we saw a further 15-20mm across parts of southern England, with a corresponding increase in Flood Warnings. Further rain is expected to spread north across many parts today, heaviest and most persistent across southwest England and Wales - where we could see a further 20-30mm and more over the hills, bringing an increasing risk of flooding in these areas by the end of the day. So most places will have a cloudy and damp day, though it will be mostly dry at first across northern and eastern Scotland, before rain arrives later. Eastern England should become somewhat drier and perhaps brighter from the south later, though there will continue to be a risk of showers across the southeast. Temperatures will reach 7-9C across England and Wales, 6-7C across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain will continue through much of Saturday night across Scotland and Northern Ireland, while further south, the more persistent rain across Wales and the West Country spreads towards the east coast of England overnight. Drier and clearer conditions will follow across Wales, SW England and parts of The Midlands - with temperatures falling close to freezing by dawn - bringing a touch of frost and some icy patches in places, with mist and fog forming in some prone spots too. Rain will cling on along eastern coastal areas of England Sunday morning, before clearing away by the afternoon, though the rain probably hanging on all day across eastern Scotland. Otherwise, most areas having a mostly dry and bright Sunday with some decent spells of sunshine, though there is a risk of scattered showers coming across western Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and more western counties of England. Temperatures similar to todays values, reaching 6-7 in the north, 8-9C in the south. Monday is looking a mostly dry day with sunny spells in most places after cold and locally frosty start. Another perhaps frosty and bright start on Tuesday, before cloud and rain spreads in across the west in the afternoon, the east perhaps staying dry until late. As mentioned at the start, continuing unsettled for the rest of the week, though it will turn progressively colder towards the end of the week - more particularly across northern Britain, where there may be a risk of some hill snow. Looking further ahead, there are tentative signs from the weather models of a change to colder and wintry conditions perhaps taking place in the last few days of January into early February - so watch this space.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:44:31 +0000
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