UK weather: Much colder than recently with wintry showers and wind

Today:

Rain slowly clearing to the southeast. Otherwise sunny spells and showers. Central and northern England and southern Scotland mostly fine and dry. Windy, particularly in north with coastal gales, locally severe. Cold.

Tonight:

Cold night with widespread slight frost. Wintry showers continuing over northern Scotland, north Wales and feeding into the Midlands from the Irish Sea for a time. Winds slowly easing.

Wednesday:

Plenty of fine, dry and sunny weather. Parts of Wales and northern Scotland still seeing some wintry showers but these slowly dying out. Cold with easing winds for most.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Changeable and often windy with bands of rain and mainly hill snow followed by blustery showers of rain, sleet and snow; these chiefly in the west. Otherwise dry. Rather cold.