Weather and climate change

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Frosty with icy patches tonight, many areas fine tomorrow.

This Evening and Tonight:

Early evening snow over parts of Wales and central and southern England gradually easing leaving clear spells and icy stretches. Elsewhere, clear spells, icy patches and a few showers in the north and west. Cold and frosty.

Monday:

A very cold and frosty start and then most areas fine, dry and bright. Cloudier in the northwest where some showers again. Feeling cold.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

Cold initially with a few wintry showers in the northeast. Gradually turning more unsettled and milder from the southwest, with cloud, wind, and outbreaks of rain and some hill snow.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC) on Sun 24 Jan 2021

Unsettled conditions look likely to dominate for this period, with low pressure across the UK. Therefore, this should bring changeable weather to most of the country, with periods of rain, showers, and strong winds at times. While mild westerly and southwesterly winds are expected to be dominant for most of the period, occasional colder northerly winds are possible, bringing a chance of snowfall, likely confined to the far northern parts. Towards the end of the period, we may see high pressure bringing a higher than average chance of cold weather more widely with wintry outbreaks. If this were to occur many inland and southern areas would likely see drier than average conditions, with some overnight of frost and fog.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC) on Sun 24 Jan 2021

Confidence is low for this period, but current signals indicate a possible high pressure system around or near the UK during this period. This would likely bring cold northerly winds, producing colder than average temperatures and wintry outbreaks. The second half of February is likely to have a mixture of weather types, with periods of wet, windy and milder weather interspersed with drier, calmer, colder periods.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC) on Sun 24 Jan 2021