You have to hand it to the ECMWF 46-day model, it saw this cold snap mid January many weeks ago. Certainly impressive stuff. But what about it's latest ideas? Well, they have just been released, as indeed they are twice every week, and here's what they say... 16th January to 23rd January Ridge builds

The roller-coaster temperature ride continues this week. Thoughts are that after the mild weekend, temperatures are going to be falling again into next week. This temperatures graph for Manchester shows the peak on Sunday before falling away again into next week. Cold air slips back in fro the east and spreads west

As we finish the week on a rather wintry note, here's the five weather things you need to know this weekend. 1. Staying cold for Saturday with a risk of some snow showers on eastern coasts. 2. Generally drier and brighter on Saturday for most, widespread frost and ice at first though. 3. Wintry