Tetchill (Shropshire) weather

Headline:

A settled day, before returning to changeable conditions.

Today:

A damp start in the east as a band of rain and cloud continues to clear to through the morning. Brighter and drier in the west, with little cloud cover allowing prolonged sunshine. Light winds and temperatures near average. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Tonight:

Remaining largely clear and dry through the evening, with clear skies allowing frost patches and icy stretches to form. Turning increasingly cloudy from the west from dawn. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Wednesday:

Becoming increasingly unsettled with strengthening winds as a rain band pushes eastwards through much of the day, bringing widespread rain, with heavy downpours and travel disruptions likely. Maximum temperature 10 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Staying unsettled on Thursday with further heavy and disruptive rainfall. Friday brings a drier and brighter day, before another rain band moves in on Saturday. Often breezy.

Unsettled conditions are likely to continue at first, with low pressure probably centred somewhere to the southwest of the UK, whilst high pressure tries to nose in from the east across northern areas. This means a broadly easterly flow becoming established, whilst periods of rain or showers becoming increasingly confined to southern or southwestern parts. With time, high pressure is signalled to become rather more dominant with more in the way dry, settled weather anticipated. With this, temperatures will probably lower a little compared to recent weeks, closer to or perhaps a little below average for some. Overnight frost and fog or freezing fog could become more widespread, though any particularly cold conditions look unlikely at this stage.

High pressure will probably be close by to the UK at the start of this period, which would maintain a fair amount of dry, settled weather. With this comes the potential for fog and frost, and lower temperatures overall, though nothing unusually cold is currently signalled. Towards mid-January, perhaps a greater chance of more changeable conditions re-asserting themselves, though this is rather uncertain at present.