High pressure is doing its best to try and take control of the weather across Britain and Ireland today and for the most part it will succeed with many regions seeing a fine and dry day. However a frontal system will be approaching the northwest later bringing thickening cloud and the risk of some rain and drizzle but it won't be until later tonight and tomorrow before that rain becomes heavier and more persistent.
It is a dry start to the day across much of the country and any early mist or fog patches will soon life and clear to leave much of the country fine, dry and pleasantly warm with plenty of sunshine around. Some cloud will bubble up as we go through the day, perhaps thick enough to bring the odd isolated shower, but most places will miss these and remain fine. The only exception to the fine weather will come towards northwest Scotland and the Western Isles where more in the way of cloud will move in during the course of the day bringing outbreaks of patchy rain and drizzle in places. The warmest weather today will be towards the south where maximums of 23°C to 26°C are expected, but once more it will be a touch cooler the further north and west that you are.
For much of the country it will be a dry night with long clear spells developing along with one or two mist and fog patches by dawn as temperatures in rural regions dip down into single figures, but in the northwest that rain and drizzle will tend to become heavier and more persistent as we go through the night as the south/south-westerly winds also strengthen. Bank Holiday Monday is then set to be fine and warm or very warm for much of England and Wales, but elsewhere will see increasingly cloudy and breezy conditions developing as that rain in the northwest edges slowly south-eastwards across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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