UK sees highest temperature of the year, snow and blood rain all in the last 48hrs

This weekend is looking quite mixed. Scotland and Northern Ireland will have a fine day with some sunshine on Saturday. After a cold and frosty start for some, it should feel quite pleasant in the afternoon sunshine. It will turn cloudier on Sunday with the best of any sunshine in northern areas.

England and Wales will have a mainly cloudy weekend with the prospect of some patches of rain on Saturday and probably some mist and fog into Sunday morning.

The cloud is likely to break up in south-east England by Sunday afternoon with some spells of sunshine developing.

Temperatures this weekend will range between 11-14C, but in any sunshine in the south-east on Sunday temperatures could reach up to 18C.

Next week is looking much more unsettled with spells of rain and at times it will become windy. The wettest and windiest weather will be across western areas.

It will turn colder through the week so we may even see some hill snow returning by the end of the week to Scotland, Northern Ireland, north England and perhaps Wales too.