A ridge of high pressure is bringing a chilly but bright start to Friday but already the next Atlantic frontal system is moving into the west and will continue to push eastwards during the next 24 hours or so. This front will clear the east by tomorrow to leave something of an east/west split for the weekend with eastern regions seeing the best of the drier and brighter weather as pressure rises to the east.
Skies have cleared overnight and this means that it is a rather cold start to the morning across central and eastern parts of England with some mist and fog patches having also formed. These will tend to lift into low cloud before clearing and then for many parts of east and southeast England it will be a dry day with plenty of sunshine although cloud amounts will tend to increase from the west. This will be due to that next frontal system approaching from the west, this system bringing some locally heavy showery outbreaks of rain across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland this morning before moving further east across parts of Scotland, Wales and western England during the day, the rain tending to become lighter and more patchy. Drier and brighter conditions will one or two scattered showers will then follow on into the west this afternoon. Temperatures will pick up to near normal maximums around the mid-teens in most areas but the freshening breeze will make it feel cooler.
The cloud and increasingly patchy rain will tend to stall over central regions tonight but with many places seeing a lot of cloud and a south/south-westerly breeze it will be a much milder night, especially in the south. Looking ahead to the weekend and as high pressure builds strongly to the east so Atlantic fronts approaching from the west will tend to grind to a halt. This means an east/west split across the country with western regions turning wet and windy at times, especially by Sunday, whilst the further east that you are the drier, brighter and warmer that it will be.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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