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UK 5 day weather forecast
Headline:
Rather cold and settled. Risk of wintry showers from Thursday.
This Evening and Tonight:
Dry and settled overnight but cloudy for most. A few breaks for Northern Ireland and southern England, with more prolonged clear spells across Scotland with a widepsread frost developing. Areas of freezing fog likely by dawn across the Central Belt.
Monday:
Monday will be another largely cloudy day, though a few sunny spells may break through for Scotland and northern England. Mostly dry, with patchy drizzle with the thickest cloud.
Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:
Settled though rather cloudy through the week, with light drizzle breaking out in places. Colder later in the week with brisk northwesterly winds bringing increasingly wintry showers to the north.
Updated:
UK long range weather forecast
Cold northerly winds, initially across Scotland are now expected to become dominant across the whole UK in the first week of January. These will bring wintry showers (often of snow) to many coastlines (and areas just inland of these) that are exposed to onshore winds. Subtle day-to-day changes in wind direction from northeast to northwest will change the places most exposed to the showers, but many inland locations across central and southern areas will remain mostly dry but cold. There are likely to be some more coherent bands of rain, sleet and snow working south, and these may bring a risk of more prolonged wintry precipitation affecting some inland areas. Towards the second half of this period, slightly milder conditions will attempt to move in from the west.
Updated:
Whilst confidence in details is low, by the start of this period the transition back to westerly winds bringing Atlantic weather systems into the UK is expected to be complete, with temperatures most likely recovering to around average. There is perhaps a weak signal for slowly evolving weather patterns to be more favoured than normal, such patterns increase the chances of frost and fog above normal by night.
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