Somewhat more unsettled conditions are affecting southern regions of Britain and Ireland today bringing the first rainfall for a couple of weeks in some areas, this all thanks to a frontal system moving up from the south. High pressure is still sitting to the north though and it will tend to become more influential as we head on through the weekend.
Once again for much of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland it will be a mostly fine and dry day with plenty of pleasantly warm sunshine around. There is some misty low cloud affecting eastern regions this morning, but this will tend to burn back to the coast today keeping it rather dull and chilly here. Otherwise in the sunshine temperatures will pick up to highs of 13°C to 16°C, warmest towards the west sheltered from the easterly breeze. Meanwhile, for much of the rest of England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland it is a mostly cloudy start with showery outbreaks of rain pushing slowly northwards, some of the showers locally heavy. The showers will tend to ease during the course of the day with many places holding onto a lot of cloud, but somewhat brighter skies will develop in the far south helping it to turn warmer here which in turn could spark off a few heavy showers by this evening.
That band of cloud and increasingly patchy rain doesn't move far tonight with the rain all but dying out. The cloud cover will help hold temperatures up in the south but further north some frost will form under clear skies and with lighter winds along with some mist and low cloud in places. Sunday is then looking drier and brighter in the south and west as that cloud and patchy rain clears away westwards to leave much of the country with plenty of dry and fine weather which will help to lift temperatures up a tad higher.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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