Weather: Wintry showers on the way as temperatures drop

TODAY will be sunny with a mix of scattered showers.

Some showers will be heavy with a chance of hail.

Highest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees, but feeling colder, with an added winds chill factor.

Tonight will be cold and breezy with clear spells and scattered showers.

Some of the showers will be heavy and wintry with hail and sleet, and possibly some snow, especially on higher ground.

Lowest temperatures of -1 to 3 degrees with some frost and icy patches in moderate to fresh and gusty northerly winds, stronger along exposed coasts.

Winds will tend to ease inland as the night goes on.