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in the afternoon. It was generally cloudy on the 7th, feeling colder as an easterly wind set in, with wintry showers near north-eastern coasts, and a broad area of snow over East Anglia and the south-east, producing up to 10cm of lying snow in some places. Widespread frost on the 8th, with wintry showers

(Cumbria) of only -0.1 °C and Copley (Durham) reporting 9 cm of lying snow. The 5th started cold, with frost for many inland locations, then it was sunny for many, with just the odd isolated shower in the Midlands and the south-west. The 6th began with widespread frost, severe away from western areas

to the localised nature of the extreme rainfall, the rural nature of the area and the low-lying topography. Weather data The analysis chart at 1800 UTC 16 August 2020 shows low pressure across southern England with a trough across Norfolk bringing thunderstorms and torrential downpours. The rain-radar image

to lie west of the UK into next week with showers and some longer spells of rain likely, but also some drier and sunnier intervals, with temperatures around average for the time of year. Keep up to date with weather warnings, and you can find the latest forecast on our website, on YouTube, by following us on X and Facebook, as well as on our mobile app which is available for iPhone from the App store and for Android from the Google Play store.  

widespread impacts. The Met Office issued two Red Warnings for snow and almost all areas experienced some lying snow with the greatest accumulations across upland northern and eastern areas and subsequently parts of South West England and South Wales. On 28 February a man died after falling into a frozen

Office Services Director, Simon Brown, said; “We are pleased to see construction start on this significant Met Office and the Environment Agency investment. “While the radar will extend observational reach further east, its most important contribution lies in the improved rainfall detection

Chief Forecaster, Christoph Almond, said: “Thursday will see another cold night, with potentially the lowest temperatures of the Winter so far, -15°C - possibly -16°C is likely in locations with lying snow in Scotland or northern England. “In the early hours of Friday, a front arriving from

spots possibly seeing in excess of 100mm of rain. Where the boundary between mild and cold weather lies over the weekend is subject to some uncertainty at the moment. Keep up to date with the latest forecast on our website, by following us on Twitter and Facebook. Keep track of current weather warnings on the weather warning page.

this information in the form of geographical maps of these probabilities for seasonally-averaged temperature and rainfall. How are the forecasts produced? The same computer models of the atmosphere that are used to make the familiar daily weather forecasts also lie at the heart of seasonal

and sub km scale Unified Model versions in urban areas. The Mesoscale Modelling group works closely with the MetOffice@Reading DA@Reading group which is aiming utilise novel observations in high resolution forecast systems. Humphrey's personal interests lie in the areas of orographic rainfall