A slack weather pattern across the country today gives way to a cold front sinking southwards tonight and tomorrow which, combined with rising pressure to our northwest, will bring a much colder end to the weekend with blustery north-easterlies developing helping to lower temperatures. It will even turn cold enough for a time for some snow showers to affect the Scottish mountains before temperatures recover somewhat early next week.
Apart from cloudier skies across the far west and across northern parts of Scotland, it is a generally fine start to Saturday with plenty of sunshine around this morning once any mist and low cloud clears. The far north of Scotland will remain cloudy with periods of rain for much of today, the rain turning persistent at times, but for much of the rest of Britain and Ireland it will be another bright and warm day with some good spells of sunshine. Once again a few scattered showers will break out by this afternoon, especially across higher inland regions where they could turn heavy and thundery with a risk of hail, but many places will miss them and stay dry. Top temperatures today will range from 20°C to 24°C quite widely, and perhaps as high as 26°C in the London region, but across the far north it will be colder with highs nearer 7°C over the Northern Isles - a sign of things to come.
Showers will tend to die out this evening with many places becoming dry, however that rain in the north will sink southwards tonight, turning to snow over the Scottish mountains as a cold north-easterly wind develops, the rain reaching southern Scotland and northern parts of England by tomorrow morning with wintry showers following into the northeast. That cloud and increasingly patchy rain continues on its southwards journey across Ireland, England and Wales tomorrow, introducing a much colder and brighter feel to the weather from the north with wintry showers continuing in the far northeast.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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