Staying fairly cold, fairly dry and often cloudy (though some sunshine).

Thanks to Phillipa for the photograph.

The stalemate continues between high pressure to our north trying to push colder air in from the east, and the Atlantic-driven weather (our norm) trying to regain control from the west.

Neither will win and we stay in this fairly cold nothingness. But at least there is some sunshine in this forecast…some!

Thursday will again be mostly cloudy, though there is scope for a little brightness at times. Fairly cold, 5’C. The cloud should break up overnight, which would allow a frost – down to around -1’C.

Friday should be reasonably sunny. Some patches of cloud floating around, and some high cloud – especially later in the day. Still fairly cold, 5’C. Cloud thickening overnight as a fairly weak weather front tries to push across, maybe a little bit of rain or some wintry flurries, around 2’C.

Saturday is back to cloudy with a bit of light rain at times. Around 5’C. Cloudy overnight with a bit of light rain at times, around 2’C.

The cold air from the east actually digs back in a bit on Sunday, though it won’t really be noticeable on the ground, as it will still be around 4’C, maybe 5’C. On the cloudier side of the spectrum most likely, though some bright/sunny spells possible. The cloud breaking up a bit overnight, a frost probable, down to around -1’C.

Not much of a change for Monday, though we will now have much colder air to the east, though still not really able to tap into it – and the Atlantic low pressure system just keep spinning around without getting anywhere.

Uncertain on cloud amounts, but more likely on the sunnier side of the spectrum, and still fairly cold at around 5’C. Likely fairly clear skies overnight, assuming so a frost, and down to around -2’C.

Tuesday looks like hazy sunshine for much of the day – though I don’t state such cloud levels with high confidence. Still around 5’C. Quite a bit of cloud and a breeze overnight, a frost possible but slightly more likely not – around 1’C, give or take.

That’s probably about as far as I can go with daily details – the milder air should start to win out by either Wednesday or Thursday.

We should get to the point where temperatures are around 10’C, maybe 12’C – be it by Wednesday perhaps, if not then Thursday/Friday.

It will also become rather windy, again cloudy and some rain at times – though nothing especially heavy or persistent currently looks likely.

It’s still plausible that the cold air could strike back next weekend, but much more likely we’ll stay in the much milder air – I wouldn’t even rule out a 15’C or so next weekend, if the sun comes out.

Have a pleasant weekend…spring isn’t too far away.