Butterknowle (Durham) weather

Headline:

Feeling cold with showers, wintry over hill tops.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloudy with showers becoming frequent and sometimes heavy, especially near the coast. Showers also wintry over the highest ground. Brisk winds along the coast, lighter inland. Feeling cold with a frost in places. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Sunday:

Mainly cloudy with scattered occasionally heavy showers, these wintry over high ground, and perhaps some limited brighter intervals. Feeling especially cold along the coast with the brisk easterly wind. Maximum temperature 7 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Cold through this period with bitter winds, easterly becoming northerly. Often cloudy with showers throughout, these becoming increasingly heavy and frequent. Showers wintry over high ground, perhaps lower levels Wednesday.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC) on Sat 3 Dec 2022

It will likely continue to be cold with further showers for much of the UK, which will fall as sleet and snow across the north leading to some accumulations of snow across higher ground, showers falling as rain or sleet more likely in parts of the south. Away from coasts there will likely be a good deal of fine and dry weather with sunny spells at times in the south, but with some sharp overnight frosts expected. There is a small chance that some less cold weather and rain could push up into the extreme south later on in the forecast period. On balance, however temperatures remaining cold or very cold everywhere in the UK throughout.

Updated: 14:00 (UTC) on Sat 3 Dec 2022

It remains very uncertain in the second half of December, but the signal for below average temperatures does weaken, especially in southern and western areas, where it could also be wetter and windier at times, with the north and east most likely to hold on to colder conditions for longest. Any transition between the cold and mild conditions would bring a risk of rain, with sleet and snow especially over the hills.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC) on Sat 3 Dec 2022