Cold northerly winds bring frosty start in Scotland, with -7C recorded in Highlandspublished at 06:34 GMT
06:34 GMT
Chris Fawkes
BBC Weather presenter
Around 17 January a blocking area of high pressure developed in Scandinavia and is only just starting to move away now.
This prevented areas of low pressure from moving beyond the UK, so they’ve become slow-moving, bringing very wet weather, with south-west winds to the south of the UK and south-easterly winds to the north of the UK.
This wind pattern is responsible for the distribution of rain, it’s been extremely wet for south England, east Scotland and eastern counties of Northern Ireland.
With the Scandinavian high pressure out of the way, we’re finally seeing a change in our wind direction.
Colder northerly winds are moving in today bringing hill snow for Scotland and north England. It’s an especially cold and frosty start in north Scotland with temperatures in the Highlands at -7C this morning – and continuing to drop lower for the next few hours.
On the brighter side, after three weeks of gloom and rain in Aberdeen, it will be sunny for large part of today – we’ll have more on this shortly.