Patterson's Spade Mill (NT) (County Antrim) weather

Headline:

Wintry coastal showers, cold but mostly dry inland.

Today:

The morning will begin cold but mostly dry with a few wintry showers in the west. Wintry showers will spread to the northern and eastern coasts from the morning but inland areas will stay mostly dry. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Tonight:

The evening will be dry and frosty with clear spells. Thickening cloud will spread east from the late evening with a band of showery, wintry rain following east towards morning. Minimum temperature -4 °C.

Saturday:

The morning will be cloudy with showery and wintry rain. This rain will clear east to leave the afternoon dry with bright spells. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Very cold, a band of snow followed by rain, pushes northeast Sunday morning. Becoming milder with dry spells interspersed with showers Sunday afternoon into Tuesday.

There is now much higher confidence for milder air to overspread the UK by the start of this period with the last of the cold air of the past couple of weeks expected to clear from the extreme northeast during the course of Monday. So this period likely to see brisk southwesterly winds bringing a very different feel to the weather than of late. There will be some rain or showers at times, but also a good deal of dry weather and although often cloudy, some brighter interludes are expected, especially to the lee of high ground. The milder conditions will see temperatures widely above average, and will lead to a rapid thaw of any remaining lying snow across northern parts of Scotland.

The outlook through the latter part of January and into the start of February is typically uncertain. A broadly southwesterly regime is marginally favoured bringing changeable conditions and spells of wet, windy and mild weather are likely, potentially with some very strong winds at times. However there is a chance that drier and colder conditions could extend into the UK from the east or northeast, along with a risk of some snow.