Newcastle Upon Tyne Youth Hostel (Newcastle upon Tyne) weather

Headline:

Increasingly cloudy but mostly dry on Thursday. Remaining cold.

Today:

Increasingly cloudy but mostly dry, with the best of any bright or sunny spells during Thursday morning towards Newcastle and Middlesbrough. Wintry showers may affect the coastal strip later. Light winds. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Tonight:

A cold and windy night with rain and snow affecting much of the region.The snow most probable across the Cheviots and Pennines with drifting here. Strong coastal winds. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Friday:

Cloudy and cold with further rain and snow, with the wettest conditions in the east. Strong winds near coast slowly easing. Drier conditions edging eastwards overnight. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Drier on Saturday with some brightness. Frosty with icy stretches overnight. Sunday probably dry, bright and cold. Chance of outbreaks of rain and snow for Monday, but low confidence currently.

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.