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The rest of this month and we will experience some chilly weather. Lets start the forecast, 4pm across scotland. Wintry showers and we have had a doze of snow already, nothing unusual and perhaps surprising this late in the season we are seeing some of thats no. Towards the south, a clear end to the day but one thing to point out is that temperatures will drop very rapidly through the course of this evening so through the course of this evening so rather than temperatures rising through the day, they will be dipping away, such as the extent of that cold air coming out of the north. Through tonight, briefly, some rain still for a time across the south, clearing away, maybe the far south of england by the early hours of friday morning, so most of us hours of friday morning, so most of us wake up to clear skies, chilly weather and a frost from the north midlands northwards. That is where it will be frosty first thing on friday. Friday, a bright, crisp, sunny day for many of us that there
Absolutely, we had some snow on the beachin absolutely, we had some snow on the beach in scarborough, it shows how cold that area is. This is from scarborough. Another one from hartlepool. Weve seen lots of snow coming in from gotland for quite a few days now. As far as this evening and tonight is concerned, more snow showers on the way, at least the chance of them around eastern areas of the uk. For northern and eastern scotland, eastern counties of england, possibly into east anglia, perhaps even getting into the Home Counties and the south east as well. But we are only talking about flurries of snow. This is what it looks like around 6pm this evening, temperatures more or less what they we re temperatures more or less what they were yesterday, at least thats the forecast, around freezing. A couple of degrees above freezing across yorkshire, cold enough for some smoke. But notice we often mention the word wintry. Wintry means a little bit of rain with sleet, sometimes snow, and it ch
Office for the northern half of scotla nd office for the northern half of scotland where we could have wind of up scotland where we could have wind of up to 80 miles an hour and also strong across Central Scotland and Northern Ireland. These strong winds all down to a developing area of low pressure that will become the storm caroline as it moves across northern parts of the country tomorrow. So very windy weather on the cards. Today a bit quieter out there. Weve had some dry and cloudy weather across england and wales but further north west this area of rain is working in south east as we head through the afternoon. So windy day with some spells of rain. Still mild at the moment with temperatures around 10 degrees above but this evening we begin to see the wind is picking up and we could see gales or severe gales in the north and west and heavy rain sweeping south east across many parts. This isa south east across many parts. This is a storm caroline and tomorrow it will bring especia