Bleaklow (Derbyshire) 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 during the afternoon. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Tonight:

Dry at first, with variable amounts of cloud. However, clear spells will allow some chilly temperatures. Wind increasing with cloud thickening and outbreaks of light rain or hill snow later. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Thursday:

Cloudy with some light rain or hill snow 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, mostly dry and sunny, although coastal wintry showers are possible. Windy along coasts making it feel colder, 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.