Great Leighs Racecourse (Essex) weather

Headline:

Very cold and frosty overnight. Wintry showers on eastern coasts.

This Evening and Tonight:

Feeling very cold throughout the night with clear spells and a widespread frost. Wintry showers into eastern coastal areas increasingly staying offshore, with some icy patches possible on untreated surfaces. Freezing fog patches developing inland. Minimum temperature -3 °C.

Saturday:

Another very cold, frosty morning with freezing fog patches slow to clear. Staying cold, but mainly dry with sunny spells. Winds remaining light. Maximum temperature 2 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Cold start Sunday, with chance of rain, perhaps brief snow, spreading east. Monday and Tuesday uncertain, but likely turning a little less cold, with rain and strong winds possible.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC) on Fri 1 Dec 2023

A fair amount of uncertainty at the start of this period as milder and more generally unsettled conditions across the south and west try and extend further north and east through the week. Its likely that these milder conditions will ultimately spread to the whole UK, but it may well take until Thursday or even Friday before they reach the extreme north pf Scotland. Elsewhere, milder, or at least less cold weather than the preceding days, with areas of rain and stronger winds, more especially in the west, this erratically spreading further north and east with time. Moving towards mid December and more generally unsettled and milder conditions look most probable although a return of the colder conditions cannot be ruled out entirely.

Updated: 14:00 (UTC) on Fri 1 Dec 2023

Conditions are most likely to be changeable through this period. Wetter and windier than average conditions are slightly more likely than normal, especially in the west and northwest. Temperatures are most likely to be near or above average overall, especially in the south and west. It is possible that there ill be further colder interludes, but these likely to be short lived at first. Perhaps a greater chance of a longer cold spell late in the period.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC) on Fri 1 Dec 2023