Walton Hall Gardens (Warrington) weather

Headline:

Largely dry but cold for New Year's Eve.

This Evening and Tonight:

Dry throughout Tuesday evening with light winds and cloud breaking to leave increasingly clear skies overnight. Temperatures quickly dropping away to give a widespread frost and some freezing fog patches. Minimum temperature -4 °C.

Wednesday:

A frosty but sunny start to New Year's Eve. Cloud gradually building during the day. Mostly dry, though a few showers possible across Cumbria towards midnight as the wind strengthens. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Rather cloudy on New Year's Day following early showery rain with a blustery wind. Prolonged periods of sunshine on Friday and the weekend but turning colder with severe frost overnight.

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.