For most, a bright but very cold start with a hard frost, and freezing fog patches across parts of the Midlands and eastern and northern England in particular. Not as cold in the far west with more cloud, and drizzle for Northern Ireland.
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00:00Morning will all end the weekend, quite a bit warmer than we started, but then for most of us that won't be too difficult.
00:08A hard frost out there this morning. There's also some thick fog patches to contend with over parts of the Midlands,
00:14eastern and northern England, along with the Welsh Marches.
00:17Further west it's not as cold as recent mornings, the start of the change.
00:21This bank of cloud is a weather front making for a damp drizzly start for Northern Ireland.
00:25Should get a bit brighter here through the day, that rain and drizzle, with some snow mixed in over the hills,
00:30edging into western Scotland, but nothing too heavy, turning a bit damp across parts of north Wales, maybe Cumbria too.
00:36But a good chunk of England and Wales will stay dry. It'll be quite cloudy in the west, but for the Midlands and eastern England
00:42and northeast Scotland we should hang on to some sunshine, but provided the fog clears.
00:47And for parts of the Midlands and eastern England, that fog won't clear.
00:51A bit patchy, but it is quite dense in places this morning, so something to be aware of before hitting the roads.
00:56And as I say, it may well last for much of the day where it has formed,
01:00and that means temperatures are going to struggle to get much above freezing where it's foggy.
01:04In the sunnier skies in the east, 2-3 degrees, so similar to the values we've had of late.
01:10But further west temperatures are starting to tick up a little bit.
01:13We should get highs of 5 or 6 degrees Celsius.
01:16And the milder air will continue to slowly push in further as we go through the night.
01:20The cloud edging further in as well.
01:22That fog thickening up though for parts of eastern England, at least for a time overnight.
01:26And again, quite dense in places.
01:28The rain and drizzle tending to fizzle out, so most places will be dry as we start tomorrow.
01:34But overall, quite a lot of cloud across the UK.
01:37Temperatures will still dip.
01:39Well, we've got some clearer skies down below freezing over eastern parts of England in particular.
01:44Towns and cities well below freezing by first thing tomorrow morning.
01:47But further west, more places will stay above freezing overnight tonight
01:51as that milder air continues to very slowly push in.
01:54It'll still feel cold for much of tomorrow across the south.
01:57A little bit of light rain and drizzle as possible in this thicker zone of cloud.
02:01That tends to fizzle out through the day.
02:03But thickening cloud in the northwest, that will bring a bit more in the way of wet weather
02:06to western Scotland and the Western Isles, eventually to the Northern Isles.
02:09And we could see some at times over Northern Ireland.
02:13With this wet weather into Scotland, if it peps up later on,
02:17we could also see the snow melting pretty rapidly.
02:21And those two combining is something we need to watch here.
02:23The snow will be melting because temperatures are going to be high.
02:26And you can tell that by the wind direction.
02:28It is going to get quite windy in these western areas, particularly over northwest Scotland.
02:32But look at where the wind is coming from.
02:34It is trying to push that milder air in.
02:36By the end of the day, in parts of the west, close to double digits.
02:40Whereas still pretty chilly, despite some sunshine over the Midlands,
02:43southern and eastern England, 4-5 degrees.
02:46That is higher than today, but still below average.
02:49It is still feeling pretty chilly.
02:51But the milder air will eventually arrive in all areas by the time we get into the new working week.
02:57But we do need to watch that wet weather coming in with the snow melts.
02:59Something we will be keeping an eye on.
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