Rothbury (Northumberland) weather

Headline:

Becoming cloudy but staying dry.

Today:

Any early fog or freezing patches soon clearing, with some sunny spells to start. Cloud cover increasing through the day, though some sunny intervals still possible. Staying dry, but feeling cold in the strengthening easterly breeze. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Tonight:

Increasingly cloudy through the evening and overnight, with mostly light showers, these wintry over high ground in the west. The easterly breeze gradually easing. Cold. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Saturday:

Cloudy throughout with hill fog and spells of light rain, this falling as sleet or snow over the Pennines. Winds falling light, but still feeling cold. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Mostly cold and often cloudy through this period, with showers, some of which could be heavy and wintry Monday and Tuesday. An easterly breeze, accentuating the cold feel.

High pressure is expected to be slow moving and centred to the northeast of the UK at the start of this period. As a result, east or southeasterly winds will dominate, these bringing below-normal temperatures across the UK from mainland Europe. Some rain and hill snow is likely at times, particularly across the east of the UK, with the best of any sunny periods probably in the west. It will be breezy around coasts, but the risk of any very strong winds is low. During the second half of this period, a change to milder and more unsettled conditions will probably begin to occur. Exactly how this manifests is uncertain, but there will be an increasing chance of rain and strong winds spreading from the Atlantic across the UK.

Weather patterns in the UK are most likely to be slowly evolving. It is most likely that high pressure to the east or northeast of the UK will dominate at first in some form or another, but with time this may decline, allowing an erratic transition to rather more unsettled and less cold conditions. During this transition there is the possibility of periods or rain or snow, at least for a time, but confidence in these details is currently very low.