Several parts of Britain are likely to be battered by heavy rain as the latest weather maps ... as Atlantic weather systems arrive from the west. These spells of wet and windy weather will drift ...

Ocean currents - the North Atlantic Drift (or Gulf Stream ... This results in milder winter temperatures in the west of the UK. Air pressure - the UK lies in a zone of low pressure.

Weather maps show a change to the sunny, dry conditions is on the way out as a low moves in from the Atlantic.

Maps for midday ... more heavily in both North Wales and northern parts of England, where again 3cm per hour flurries are on the cards. Snow also looks set to drift over central and eastern ...

An Atlantic storm is on the horizon ... "The start of this period will see residual rain clearing from the south and far ...

As two distinctly different types of air battle for control over the mid-latitudes, the UK experiences contrasting and changeable weather. The warm North Atlantic Drift significantly impacts the ...