Issued: 0900 Tuesday 13th December 2022
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Very cold with severe overnight frosts, milder, wet and windy Sunday

The cold weather persists into the weekend. Generally dry, although a few snow showers here and there close to coasts. Overnight skies will be clearer for many with widespread severe frosts. Milder, windy, weter weather is expected to arrive on Sunday with snow ahead of the rain in some places. Early next week is milder for a few hours before turning cooler again with some snow showers north and west.

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Friday 16/12/22
Higher pressure builds in southern England with a weak front moving into Scotland on Friday. Some areas of snow afecting Scotland and the north and west coasts of Ireland. Scattered snow showers may affect western coasts of England and Wales too. Elsewhere it is dry with some freezing fog although this slowly clearing. Then drier with some bright or sunny spells developing in the rest of England and Wales. Drier in northern Scotland, although soe snow in Orkney and Shetland. Highs 0 to 3C.

Saturday 17/12/22
Cold again on Saturday although the winds turn more to the south. This may encourage some more widespread misty, murky conditions to develop. The best of any brightness in the east. Drizzle may affect western coasts and hills with some rain in western Ireland. A slightly milder day at 2 to 4C but 6C in the southwest.

Sunday 18/12/22
Increasing winds on Sunday, becoming gale force in the west. Many areas are cold again, and feeling bitterly cold in the wind. Milder weather and heavy rain through Ireland and southwestern parts of Wales and England by daybreak. The rain and winds passing east but increasingly preceded by snow over northern and eastern England as well as much of Scotland before turning back to rain in the west and the milder air arrives for all by evening. Highs by evening at 4C in the east, 12C in the west.

Monday 19/12/22
Low pressure to the northwest of Scotland on Monday. A strong southwest wind with gales at times in the west and south. Outbreaks of rain, some of them heavy and passing east and north. A milder day at 10 to 13C, but then turning cooler in Ireland and Scotland again later.

Tuesday 20/12/22
Winds become lighter and from the west or northwest on Tuesday. Colder air passes through all areas with some rain still affecting the southeast. Some snow showers in northern and western Scotland as well as western Wales and the north and west of Ireland. Highs at 3 to 7C.

Wednesday 21/12/22
A northwesterly flow through the country on Wednesday. This is going to be bringing some snow showers to northern and western coasts and hills. Drier in eastern and southern areas and brighter too. Feeling cold in the wind. Highs at 1 to 5C.