Issued: 0530hrs Friday 2nd January 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Snow showers will affect all windward coasts, most frequent and heavy in the north and east. Dry and often sunny away from these areas.

Good morning,

The cold northerly wind is now well in place across all the British Isles. Frequent and heavy snow showers will drift into northern Scotland, some reaching towards central areas, with accumulations increasingly reaching down to the lowest elevations. Frequent and heavy snow showers will also graze the east coast as far south as East Anglia. Some hail may well be mixed into these snow showers. Snow showers will also affect north Ireland and the Welsh shores of the Irish Sea, though these lighter and more scattered than elsewhere.

Away from these areas I've mentioned, the day will be bright and often sunny! The only exception is southern parts of Wales and England in the morning - a weak front is moving southward through here through the early hours, so expect patchy wintry precipitation early, but this will clear. High temperatures of 2C in the north, up to 5C in the south, but feeling raw in the wind.

No change in the winds into and overnight, so generally no change in the weather either. A few more wintry showers may reach into southwest England. Otherwise, windward coasts continue to see wintry showers, and well inland areas are dry with clear skies. Frosts will develop widely, lows of -2C in the north and nearer 0C in the south.

Have a good day!
-Dan

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