Mild for a time then Colder

After the coldest December on record in many parts of Ireland a lot of people will now be looking to see what January 2011 has in store for us and are we going to be pounded by more snow and Arctic temperatures again. Well it would seem that the cold theme will certainly continue for January but whether it will be of the bone-chilling variety that we saw in December 2010 is open to question.

It does look like some areas at least are going to see more snowfall during the month but this will be kept updated during the next few days as the nice mild weather that we have been enjoying slowly ebbs away letting a cold variable followed by a biting Northerly into the fold. This would place Ulster under the most danger of seeing snow and temperatures in the first week of January could dip as low as minus 7 at night.