A very unsettled day is in store across many parts of the UK and Ireland today as low pressure dominates. Today's system actually contains within it the remnants of ex-hurricane Humberto which will bring some locally torrential and thundery downpours in places along with some gusty winds with some spots potentially seeing a couple of inches of rainfall in a short period of time.
Many areas are starting off on a cloudy note this morning with a band of showery rain affecting the north and northeast of Scotland. Meanwhile, another area of rain is pushing north-eastwards across England and Wales and some of this rain is torrential in nature with some embedded thunderstorms. There is the potential for some locally large rainfall totals to fall in relatively short periods of times which could bring the risk of localised flooding – please see our Weather Watch for more details. Conditions will tend to slowly improve from the west and southwest during the course of the day with the rain turning more showery in nature and some brighter spells developing in-between the showers, but for parts of northern England and southern Scotland the day will end on a wet note. The driest and sunniest weather today is likely to be across the north and northwest of Scotland along with parts of Northern Ireland, but even here the odd shower cannot be ruled out. With all this weather activity, temperatures won't really be anything too exciting - maximums generally in the mid-high teens, perhaps as high as 20°C in the southeast.
Showers will continue into this evening and during the night across many areas but will tend to become confined to more coastal regions by the end of the night, although an area of more persistent showers and brisk winds will cross southern counties of the UK. It will remain fairly mild for many areas with temperatures holding up in double figures for most. This takes us into a rather showery midweek period with low pressure never too far away, the showers often on the heavy side and accompanied by brisk winds, before more persistent rain arrives in the far west late in the day.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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