Tuesday 10th March
The fog and mist was very slow to clear during Monday morning and into the afternoon. However, the change in wind direction, to come from the south, a drier and slightly warmer direction, saw the cloud break up late afternoon with glimpses of sunshine. As a result the thermometer rose to 11.2C at 15.59 making it the warmest day since 5th and 0.4C above average. The thinner cloud overnight, with breaks, meant a cooler night with the thermometer dropping to 4.9C at 06.46, early Tuesday, being 2.3C above average.
Tuesday arrived with breaks in the cloud with occasional glimpses of sunshine, a distinct improvement on recent foggy and misty days. However, the Atlantic air flow will send two weather fronts heading our way as the day progresses with rain likely, possibly heavy, into the evening and night.
Unsettled covers the next few days as by Thursday the wind will strengthen significantly with rain in the evening and probably heavy for a few hours as two weather fronts spread thick cloud again followed by a very cool day on Friday as the second weather front is a cold front heralding a drop in temperature. The front will be associated with a deep area of low pressure heading towards the UK before swinging north towards Iceland.
Throughout the winter there have been headlines of heavy and extensive snow from some weather forecasters, not the Met Office, that have not materialised over southern Britain. Yesterday the Met Office put out a press release saying “Temperatures are set to plummet dramatically as snow sweeps across substantial portions of the UK, with meteorological charts suggesting a noticeable Arctic blast could materialise, being more probable towards the end of the month. Initially, hitting Scotland, Ireland and the North West, with a later band of snow advancing across southern England and Wales.