Mothering Sunday 2016 over the United Kingdom will be marked by chilly sunshine with just a few showers here and there.

Following a widespread clear sky and lighter winds than of late, temperatures at dawn Sunday will be on the chilly side. Southern Britain will see town and cities waking up to between 0 and +2C (countryside 0 to -2C) while central and northern Britain will waken to between -2 to 0C in towns and cities (countryside -1 to -4C), locally -8C in sheltered snow covered areas.

As you can see from the below GFS surface chart for midday Sunday, bar a light northerly breeze (stronger along the North Sea Coast), it’s dry with plenty of sunshine. Any showers of rain and or sleet/snow should be largely confined to North Sea coasts as well as over Ireland, western Northern Ireland.

 

GFS cloud cover forecast.

Thanks to a cool air mass in place coupled with light northerly air flow, despite plentiful sunshine, afternoon maximum temperatures will be below average with 3-6C over Scotland and northern England, 5-8C across the Midlands, southern England and Wales as well as over Ireland and Northern Ireland.

 

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