Buckden (North Yorkshire) weather

Headline:

Outbreaks of rain for the Pennines, drier and brighter elsewhere.

Today:

Cloudy across the Pennines with spells of rain, especially this afternoon. Elsewhere generally dry and cloudy, although some bright or sunny spells will occur, especially this morning. Light winds inland, breezy along the coast. Temperatures near average. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Tonight:

Cloudy with showers or longer spells of rain, these perhaps on the heavy side at times. Light winds with extensive hill fog developing. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Sunday:

Cloudy with patchy light rain through the morning, followed by heavier rain spreading east through the afternoon. Becoming breezy, particularly along the coast. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Monday largely dry and cloudy, becoming breezy. Windy with spells of rain for Tuesday, becoming colder with hill snow likely. Wednesday possibly breezy, slightly milder, generally cloudy and becoming drier.

Frontal systems over the Atlantic, steered by a south-shifted jet stream, are likely to approach the UK at times, but tending to stall as they encounter a blocking area of high pressure to the north and northeast. This will result in further spells of rain at times, falling in areas already sensitive to flooding. As these bands of rain spread northwards, some snow will be possible on high ground in northern England and Scotland as they encounter colder air. A subtle shift southwards of these areas of low pressure is anticipated during the second week of February, which may allow a greater chance of colder air to spread across northern UK at least, bringing an increased risk of wintry hazards for a time.

Whilst confidence is lower through this period, a south-shifted jet stream is likely to persist much of the time, steering areas of low pressure towards and south of the UK. This is likely to bring further spells of wet and windy weather, rain most frequent in the south and west, and perhaps also eastern Scotland, with the driest conditions, relative to normal, in northwest Scotland. Some hill snow will be possible at times as the wet weather encounters colder air across northern parts of the UK. Temperatures for the period as a whole will likely be close to average in the southwest, but a little below in the northeast.