Weather pattern stuck in a rut
| 15:24 UK time, Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The weather today is the same as yesterday and the day before and it's not often you can say that in this country!
The weather pattern is stuck in a rut at the moment with a slow moving area of high pressure over Britain. However, over the next couple of days, the high will gradually move away to the west of Ireland and that means a change in wind direction.
The wind will turn into the north west and that will allow cooler air to flow in from the Atlantic. The north-westerly wind will also bring some cloud with it as well.
By the end of this week it will be much cloudier and cooler and that goes for the weekend but apart from the odd spot of rain or drizzle, the outlook is dry with no sign of any useful rain.
There is more dry weather to come next week but further into April there are signs that it will turn more unsettled with some rain and showers.
Met Office weather chart
With clear skies at night, we have seen a huge rise and fall in temperature between the day and night. Last night in Bala, Gwynedd the temperature fell to minus 1 Celsius with a frost - a reminder that it is still only March.
Clear skies have meant that Jupiter and Venus are looking amazing at the moment in the western sky to the right of the moon, with Venus being brightest and Mars, the red planet in the south east.
However, with 12 hours of sunshine at this time of year, temperatures rocket upwards and in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent 20 Celsius, 68 Fahrenheit was recorded this afternoon - that's about 10 degrees above the seasonal average and warmer than Palermo in Sicily!
The highest temperature recorded in March in Wales was 23.9 Celsius at Prestatyn, Denbighshire and at Ceinws, Powys on 29 March 1965.
Porthmadog recorded 22.2 Celsius last Saturday but the coming weekend will be cooler and much cloudier with temperatures ranging between 10 to 14 Celsius.
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