Levels isnt yet hitting home. The energy bills should be coming down by now. Not from what ive seen. They keep putting the standard charge for electricity up and gas. But it doesnt feel like. The cost to go out for the day and eating and drink seems to be going up as well. Sometimes ijust dont even, like, pay for my wi fi because i cant, so we have to go without. Everything isjustl going up, isnt it . Everything. And you dont think that thats starting to calm down or stabilise . Anything you can see in your own bills . Maybe our gas and electric is i slightly better than it was or not as bad as it was getting, but apart from that, no, not really. The latest figures show food costs and prices in cafes and restaurants helping Drive Inflation down to 3. 1i last month the lowest level for two and a half years, well down on its 11 peak. From here, the Headline Rate of inflation is likely to fall below 2 , thats the governments target, driven by those falls in Energy Prices next month. But w
cold. patchy rain and drizzle coming to scotland and northern ireland through the day tomorrow. it would tend to fizzle out and allow some sunshine to develop that further south after a cold and frosty start with the mist and fog, it will be a lovely sunny day. after the cold start, temperatures are are reaching 7-9 but it start, temperatures are are reaching 7 9 but it could be colder weather mist and fog hold on. a repeat performance to wednesday. a cold and frosty start. i put the isobars on to show you what s going on across the north west of the country. it will be turning wetter and windier later in the day as this active front starts to push into western scotland. again, temperatures pretty much where we should be for the time of year. it is later wednesday into wednesday night that we start to see the wind is picking up a north and west scotland. gusts up to 75 mph, yellow met office warning for that. a band of rain will sweep across the uk. thursday, much colder air
Particularly running in ahead of this cold front and particularly affecting north west scotland, where gusts of wind could reach 75mph, potentially disruptive gusts of wind for a time. the cold front itself will then continue to push its way southwards and eastwards as we go through wednesday night, and by the time we get to thursday, it s still going to be a windy and blustery day, but the winds will be starting to calm down across these northern areas. however, following our cold front through, this strap of cloud, a few patches of rain on that, we have cooler air working in. showers for scotland. well, they ll be falling as snow in the mountains above about a00m elevation, so quite high up. but for shetland, some of the showers here will be wintry you ll probably see a bit of sleet or hail mixed in with those and temperatures down on recent days, but actually closer to average for the time of year, around 7 8 celsius. that relatively cooler site of weather doesn t last long. we