Saling Hall (Essex) weather

Headline:

Early freezing fog clearing. Dry with sunny spells. Cold.

Today:

Early cloud and freezing fog patches will only slowly clear this morning to leave a sunny but cold day. Cloud thickening from the northwest later in the afternoon. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Tonight:

A mostly dry night, with variable amounts of cloud. However, clear spells will allow some chilly temperatures. Wind increasing overnight with cloud thickening and outbreaks of light rain towards dawn. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Thursday:

Cloudy with some light rain at first. This clearing away southwards, with sunny spells developing. Windy, especially on coasts, and cold. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Cloudy with risk of some snow early Friday. Then cold and sunny, although wintry showers likely near Norfolk and Suffolk coasts. Feeling colder in wind along coasts, easing during Sunday.

Cold northerly winds dominant across the UK in the first week of January. These will bring wintry showers (often of snow) to many coastlines (and areas just inland of these) that are exposed to onshore winds. Day-to-day changes in wind direction will change the places most exposed to the showers, but many inland locations across central and southern areas will remain mostly dry but cold - some more coherent bands of rain, sleet and snow working south at times. Into the second week of January slightly milder conditions will attempt to move in from the west, with a risk of further snow on the leading edge of these turning to rain. Colder regime more likely to the north with average to just below average in the south.

Whilst confidence in details is low, by the start of this period the transition back to westerly winds bringing Atlantic weather systems into the UK is expected to be complete, with temperatures most likely recovering to around or just below average. There is perhaps a weak signal for slowly evolving weather patterns to be more favoured than normal, such patterns increase the chances of frost and fog above normal by night.