Updated Weather Forecast - Thursday 15th December 2011

Sadly only 4 people read my last forecast so you might not know that there is snow on the way for tomorrow morning - however one of those 4 told me how much she likes reading my forecasts - and my day was made and hence I am back on forecasting.  This time I might actually put the link up on Facebook correctly.

I did say that there was a 70% chance of snow - I now say a 90% chance of snow but still only a 70% chance of it actually settling - the ground is very wet and the snow will be fairly wet in nature - it will need to be heavy and consistent and also cold enough to settle.  Equally, there could be 4-5cm here in Reading.  And if you travel anywhere vaguely hilly in the area, there will be snow on the ground.  Reading might just be a touch not cold enough.

Tonight, outbreaks of rain, eventually down to a chilly 1'C.
Friday, around 6am it will start to turn to snow, as above it should settle a bit.  No guarantee.  1'C at best in a distinctly cold northerly wind, -2'C overnight.  A 30% potential for a snow shower in the early evening too.
Saturday will be proper cold but quite sunny, perhaps 2'C at best.  Again, a small, say 20% chance of a snow shower in the evening or maybe even a light dusting overnight, but Reading is not best suited for snow from a northerly blast so don't expect it...just maybe.  Down to -4'C overnight with a sharp frost.
Sunday, again a small chance of a little early snow, 20%, still cold at 2'C but the wind will turn to the west so not feeling as cold, -1'C overnight.
Monday will slowly turn less cold, maybe up to 6'C, with a band of rain for the afternoon.
Tuesday sees high pressure building but it will be a cloudy affair, slowly getting milder, 8'C by day and a lovely 10'C for the night - but with some outbreaks of rain likely later in the evening and overnight (I say likely as Reading might be a shade too far south for this particular area of rain).
Wednesday will be fairly cloudy but there should be some bright sunny spells from time to time, and a positively tropical, 12'C - 8'C overnight.
Thursday quite sunny but cloud building later with rain overnight, 11'C.

I did say categorically no snow for Christmas Day but there is maybe another northerly blast shaping up for around 26th/27th - it wouldn't take a miracle for my Christmas Day forecast to be wrong.  But for now - Christmas will be dry with average temperatures, maybe a frost.  Which yes is different to what I said on Monday (cloudy, mild with some rain) but hardly anyone saw that so I will get away with it ;-)