a chilly start but a fine day for the majority, with light winds. it will remain feeling cold, even with some sunshine. the reason it is pretty quiet for today is this area of high pressure here. we might see a few showers coming into eastern regions of england today, and later, the westerly winds will pick up across scotland and northern ireland. so, more cloud arriving, and there will be some rain for western scotland and for parts of northern ireland to come in the afternoon. as the cloud comes in, temperatures will come up in these areas. overnight and into boxing day, we see a weather front sliding south across the uk, an early frost in the south—east before the cloud descends. not much rain, as it gets into the south of the uk. but then another spell of heavy rain approaching western scotland by the end of the night. all of the cloud will