Cockermouth (Cumbria) weather

Headline:

Feeling chilly with showers at times, wintry over the hills.

Today:

A changeable day with a mixture of sunny spells and cloudier periods. Scattered showers developing, these locally heavy and wintry especially over the hills. It will feel cold in the northerly breeze. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Tonight:

Showers becoming more isolated this evening but still wintry at times, mainly over higher ground. Winds easing and turning mostly dry and cold with frost and patchy ice developing overnight. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Thursday:

Mainly dry first thing with sunny spells. Cloud amounts increasing with a scattering of showers developing, these perhaps wintry in places. Not quite as breezy, but still feeling chilly. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Showers are possible on Friday, locally heavy and wintry. Largely fine this weekend, with some sunshine at times. Staying chilly with overnight frosts, but feeling pleasant in any afternoon sunshine.

The dominant area of high pressure will gradually drift away to the E of the UK through the early part of next week. So initially there should be a good deal of dry weather with plenty of sunshine by day, but still some noticeably chilly nights with frost fairly widespread. The odd fog patch is possible in the north, and a brisk breeze across the south will make it feel notably chilly here. Beyond that we will likely to see a gradual transition to less settled conditions. So rain or showers at times, mostly focussed across the south at first, then more widely later. With winds turning to the south it will become much milder, possibly very mild in places for a time.

Confidence is low, but through the end of March changeable weather patterns are most likely. This means periods of unsettled, wet and windy weather interspersed with some drier and brighter spells. Into early April, there may be a transition to more-frequent drier and more settled spells. Temperatures will probably be above average overall.