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Cloudy Wednesday, some showery rain in the morning, drier later.

This Evening and Tonight:

This evening will be start off dry and clear with some patchy frost. Clouding over from the south shortly before midnight with a few showers breaking out through the early hours. Minimum temperature 0 °C.

Wednesday:

A few showers at first otherwise mainly dry and rather cloudy. A few bright spells breaking through along the north coast later. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Cloudy with rain on Thursday, becoming drier from the west later. Dry and bright on Friday and Saturday.

A broad northwest-southeast split in the weather looks the most likely scenario as we move into the second week of March. High pressure centred over continental Europe should maintain enough of an influence across southern and eastern UK to allow for a fair bit of dry and at times bright weather, whilst the majority of rain-bearing weather systems affect the northwest of the UK. Some strong winds are likely at times in the northwest. Temperatures look to be mostly near to a little above average. Towards the end of this period, there is chance that unsettled conditions in the northwest may become rather more widespread.

A more widely unsettled spell of weather is possible through the middle part of March, with periods of rain and strong winds affecting much of the UK. Whilst confidence in the details is low, there is the potential for weather patterns to become slower-moving towards late March, with unsettled weather become more confined to parts of the south, whilst areas towards the north and northwest turn drier. Given this pattern, the chance of wintry hazards will increase compared to earlier in March. Overall, temperatures will probably end up near to average, but there is an increasing chance of below average temperatures towards the end of March, though at present, there is no strong sign for any really cold weather to develop.