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Dry night with a frost for many.

This Evening and Tonight:

Any isolated showers soon die away, leaving largely clear skies and allowing temperatures to quickly fall with a widespread slight frost developing. Later in the night cloud starts to increase from the west. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Sunday:

Starting dry, with some early sunny spells. Cloud thickening and becoming windy during the morning. Outbreaks of rain, perhaps heavy, from mid-afternoon. Rain clearing southeastwards later. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Bright start Monday, then cloudy with rain arriving later. Breezy. Tuesday largely dry, wind easing. Cloudy at first but brightening up. Dry with sunny spells Wednesday. Turning milder.

It will quickly turn more settled everywhere, with most places predominantly dry. Temperatures will fluctuate between being milder than average to colder than average, so it is possible we could see some overnight frost and fog, but overall by day there should be frequent spells of pleasant spring sunshine making it feel fine away from coasts exposed to a brisk easterly wind. How long the settled conditions last is less certain with some signals that showers / rain could return later in the period.

Blocked, or slowly evolving, weather patterns are favoured for late March into early April, with high pressure probably building to the north or northeast of the UK. Whilst confidence is low in how this will influence the weather across the UK, this tends to lead to a more prolonged period of a certain weather type, be it settled or unsettled. In any case, a reduction in Atlantic-dominated weather patterns is likely, although some wet weather remains possible at times, perhaps more especially in the south and east whilst northwestern areas tend to be drier than average. Temperatures will probably be close to average for the period as a whole, but there is an increased chance of some colder conditions developing for a time with a risk of frost.