Arctic air replaces high pressure bringing freezing temps and snow

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High pressure remains close by for the rest of Thursday and into Friday, bringing plenty of dry weather. Turning colder and more unsettled over the weekend and into the next week as cold Arctic air becomes established.

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00:00Arctic air replaces high pressure, bringing freezing temperatures and a threat of snow.

00:05For the rest of Thursday though and into Friday, high pressure remains close by,

00:08bringing plenty of dry and settled weather. A cold weather front though will approach from

00:13the north-west, bringing strengthening winds and outbreaks of rain to north-west Scotland

00:17on Friday afternoon, and this will then sink southwards, bringing outbreaks of rain which

00:21will turn increasingly light and patchy across England and Wales on Saturday.

00:26Brighter though further north on Saturday afternoon, with sunny spells and blustery

00:29showers. That cold front though will have also dragged with it southwards cold Arctic air,

00:34so some of those showers may be wintry over the Scottish hills.

00:39Cold air will then become widespread across the whole of the UK by Sunday and into next week,

00:44bringing freezing temperatures, frosty nights and more unsettled weather with a threat of sleet and

00:49snow.

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