Brr! It's a chilly start to the week with a widespread ground frost and some air frost having formed overnight but the upside of the colder temperatures is that there is plenty of dry and bright weather around thanks to high pressure ridging in from the west and northwest. This high hangs around for another couple of days yet but will give way to more changeable conditions during the second half of the week.
Temperatures overnight have dropped down close to or just below freezing in many inland areas and there are one or two mist or fog patches around. However, there will be plenty of sunshine around and for much of Britain and Ireland Monday will be a fine and dry day with long spells of bright autumn sunshine. The main exception will come across the north and east of Scotland and some eastern counties of England where there will be more of a northerly breeze bringing more cloud and a few scattered showers from time to time. Meanwhile, high cloud will tend to affect south-western regions in association with a frontal system that will bring some rain or drizzle to the far southwest and the Channel Islands. It will be a rather chilly day despite the sunshine with top temperatures ranging from 6°C to 10°C for inland areas, but around coasts the warm sea temperatures will help lift values up to 11°C or 12°C.
Those temperatures will fall away quickly after sunset and for most of the country it will be another fine, clear and cold night with frost and some patchy fog for inland regions. Coastal locations will remain slightly milder and it will also be milder towards the far southwest where cloudier skies will bring some rain and drizzle across parts of southwest England and southernmost parts of Ireland. This takes us into a very similar day tomorrow with plenty of fine weather on offer but the far southwest will remain cloudier and damper.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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