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Nikki BerryBBC Weather

New Year's Eve will be a windy day for much of the UK with the strongest winds across the north of the UK during the daytime where yellow warnings are in place.

The rain across northern Scotland will become more showery and any snow will be confined to Shetland where several more centimetres look likely.

Meanwhile, the band of rain across southern Scotland and Northern Ireland will gradually clear southwards to move across northern England and north Wales by this afternoon. To the south of this, breezy and rather cloudy but with some brighter intervals.

Tonight the band of rain will stall across northern England and Wales where it will become heavy and persistent, especially over the hills.

Southern England should stay largely dry and relatively mild overnight but will become increasingly windy.

Showery rain will move slowly south across Scotland with increasingly cold air being pulled in on north-easterly winds and, consequently, the showers in the north will turn increasingly to sleet and snow over high ground.

However, the winds will ease somewhat across the northern half of the UK during the night.