1.   Drier weather will follow south with sunny spells, particularly in the more eastern parts.

2.   Drier with sunny spells for all areas on Thursday afternoon.

3.   Elsewhere, it will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers.

4.   It traps the warmth of the odd sunny spell, and wards off the critical few degrees of cold.

5.   The weather will remain dry with sunny spells.

6.   Tuesday will be dry with sunny spells.

7.   Tomorrow should brighten up with sunny intervals and the outlook for Friday is mainly dry with sunny spells.

8.   Early mist and frost clearing leaving sunny spells, less than twenty five per cent chance of rain.

9.   But the north west and the west coast did get some sunny spells, while the rest of the country had to contend with some patchy rain.

10.   The bad news is that sunshine will be in short supply for the west coast, but there will be good sunny spells over central and eastern Scotland.