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in on the 26th, with light rain clearing the south-east followed by scattered showers which were locally thundery with hail and became wintry on high ground. The 27th was notably cool for late October with showers in the north-east spreading south and west. There was snow on high ground, with 3 cm

. Three days of sunshine and showers followed on the 10th, 11th and 12th, with the showers mostly falling as rain, hail and sleet on low ground but with snow on high ground, and Spadeadam (Cumbria) only reached 0.8 °C on the 11th. The showers also produced isolated thunderstorms, and it remained very

and dry on the 1st, but frontal cloud spread from the north-west into northern areas, bringing rain which then spread south-eastwards overnight 1st/2nd, clearing eastwards on the 2nd followed by a cold north-westerly with sunshine and showers, the showers wintry on high ground and widely producing hail

of the country. Some showers were heavy with hail and thunder in northern areas on the 25th, but there were still many areas that saw dry weather. Scattered showers persisted for the next few days, in an unsettled end to May. Overall, the mean temperature for the UK was provisionally 1.3°C above the long-term

to the formation of cumulonimbus clouds, towering, dense clouds capable of producing heavy rain, hail, and lightning. Lightning is a massive electrical discharge caused by the separation of positive and negative charges within a storm cloud. As the storm develops, ice particles and hailstones collide

and the Northern Isles from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning. Here, showers will turn increasingly wintry through the day with hail, sleet and some snow. Little snow is likely to settle at low levels by day, but through the evening and overnight, 1 to 3 cm may accumulate in some places within the warning

and northern England where there is a Met Office Weather Warning in force.  Whilst many places will remain dry and hot, the thunderstorms on Friday could lead to torrential downpours in places with a much as 30 mm of rainfall in an hour and 60 mm in 3 hours. Large hail and strong, gusty winds are also

: “The low pressure that brought the snow and heavy rain in the south will move out to the east by Monday. This will allow a cold northerly flow to become established again for much of next week. This will bring further sleet, snow and hail showers to northern Scotland in particular, but possibly

infrastructure potentially causing travel disruption. It starts life as snow, ice, or hail, which melts as it passes through a band of warm air as it falls, before refreezing in a band of colder air. The rain droplets become 'supercooled' and are close to or below freezing when they hit the ground

– Wednesday 1000 Latest info 👉 https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs Stay #WeatherAware⚠️ pic.twitter.com/9nHbxha8iY — Met Office (@metoffice) November 18, 2024 Northern Scotland Snow and hail showers will affect northern parts of Scotland at times, becoming heavier and more frequent on Monday night, through much