The effects of a high pressure ridge extending from Scandinavia across Estonia to the southeast will be less influential than anticyclones can be at times, and the day will remain cloudy, with light snow as seen in places on Friday.

Temperatures will also hover around zero during the day.

After a cold night with temperatures as low as -6 degrees Celsius and patches of snow in places, Saturday has dawned cold and cloudy. The air temperature is a uniform -3 degrees across nearly all the mainland; slightly milder over the islands. The cloud cover remains quite think, with only very light breezes.

Daytime is set to remain mostly cloudy, and flurries of snow are forecast, particularly for the North coast. Light easterlies remain, of two to eight meters per second though later in the day the wind speed may reach around 10 meters per second, over the islands.

Ambient temperatures remain chilly: -1 to zero degrees in the North and over the islands, slightly above zero in the South.

Sunday will be clearer but with some cloud cover, while from Tuesday the clear skies seen earlier in the week are forecast to make a slight return. Nighttime temperatures will be cold: -6 to -5 degrees on average, but the days will get progressively milder as the new week goes on. Average air temperatures are forecast to rise from +2 degrees nationwide on the Sunday, to +6 degrees on Wednesday, March 13.

At this time of year, the days are getting rapidly longer, too. Whereas dawn on Saturday was at 6.54 a.m. in Tallinn, by Wednesday it arrives at 6.42 a.m. The sundown times are 6.09 p.m. on Saturday, coming 10 minutes later at 6.19 p.m. on the Wednesday (again, in Tallinn, regional times vary slightly).

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