The trailing frontal system that has been hanging around over or close to central and southern parts of the country during the last few days has pushed back northwards overnight and will bring a lot of cloudy but mild weather to southern regions again today. As we go through the next few days this system will finally be pushed away to the south once and for all as a combination of rising pressure to the northwest and low pressure developing over Scandinavia helps to introduce colder air from the north during the course of the weekend.
Back to this morning and temperatures are widely in double figures across central and southern parts of the UK and Ireland and this is thanks to a mostly dull and overcast start to the day, the cloud thick enough to bring some patchy rain and drizzle in places. It is a brighter start in the north with some sunny spells around but there are some showers affecting northern and western parts of Scotland. This north-south divide continues today with very little change overall. Many southern regions will become mainly dry, perhaps with the odd brighter interval, but on the whole many areas will remain mostly cloudy and there will still be the odd outbreak of rain or drizzle in places. Despite the cloud it will be mild in these areas with top temperatures in the range of 15°C to 17°C, perhaps a degree or two warmer if any sunny spells develop. Meanwhile for northern areas it will be a bright and breezy day with a few showers continuing in the north and west, but temperatures will be nearer 12°C to 14°C and feeling cooler in the wind.
The cloud and patchy rain or drizzle will begin to sink back south tonight but for many central and southern regions it will be another mild night with temperatures holding up in double figures. To the north clearer skies will result in a colder night with some patchy frost in rural spots as any remaining showers die out. Tomorrow will then be a dry and fine day for much of the country as high pressure builds for a time, the cloud and patchy drizzle in the south gradually becoming confined to the far south and southwest, but a much colder night will follow in the south under those clearer skies.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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