Walton Hall Gardens (Warrington) weather

Headline:

Rain clearing to sunnier spells. Turning colder.

Today:

A damp start in the south, but rain soon clearing southwards to leave bright or sunny spells through the afternoon. A scattering of showers possible. Feeling colder and turning breezier, especially over the hills. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Tonight:

A mixture of clear spells and a few showers moving through this evening and overnight in a northwesterly breeze. Cold with patchy frost. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Sunday:

Chilly but bright start with some showers. Turning more unsettled through the afternoon and evening with outbreaks of rain and possible hill snow. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Wet and windy on Monday with hill snow. Rain turning more showery on Tuesday then drier and brighter on Wednesday with a few coastal showers. Cold with overnight frosts.

Cold or very cold conditions are likely to affect most if not all parts of the UK early in this period, with wintry showers affecting in particular northern parts and exposed coastal districts. Overnight frost will likely be widespread and occasionally strong winds will result in significant wind chill. However, there may be some more organised areas of rain and snow, accompanied by strong winds, which run across some parts. This could lead to some disruptive weather at times. Briefly milder conditions may accompany these in the south. There is a hint that it may become less cold late in the period, but still likely remain mostly unsettled with further spells of rain and snow.

Signals vary in prevailing weather patterns through this period. In general, there looks like a trend towards drier and more settled conditions, with high pressure potentially being the more dominant influence over the UK. However. there is a chance of more changeable weather patterns at times, which would see Atlantic weather systems periodically move across the country. These will bring some wetter and windier interludes with a risk of some snow, especially for hills in the north. Temperatures generally close to average, perhaps a little above at times, especially in the south.