High pressure sat out to the east and low pressure out to the southwest have combined to allow for a very warm air mass to drift northwards across western Europe and into parts of the UK. This sets today up for potentially being the hottest day of autumn 2020 with temperatures peaking at or just over 30°C in places. The next few days see a slightly cooler outlook as high pressure sets up to the north allowing winds to back more to the east or northeast, but there will still be plenty of settled weather on offer for most.
There are some patches of mist and fog around first thing this morning but these will soon clear and for many places it will be a fine and dry day with long spells of sunshine, especially across central and south-eastern regions. The sunshine will turn hazy at times though, and the further north and west that you are the more in the way of cloud that there will tend to be, the thickest cloud bringing some rain and drizzle at times across Scotland along with western parts of Ireland. One or two heavy, and perhaps thundery, showers will break out during the course of the day, most likely towards the southwest, but most places will miss these and stay dry. It will be a very warm day with top temperatures of 27°C to 30°C towards the south and east of England, but it will be cooler the further north and west that you are with northern Scotland seeing maximums of 12°C to 15°C.
A few scattered heavy downpours may break out this evening across parts of Wales and northern England in particular, but away from the north where it remains dull and damp, it will be a mostly dry and warm night with some mist or fog patches forming. Tomorrow sees a change in wind direction as a cooler north-easterly wind develops, bringing cloudier skies and the risk of a little rain to central and northern regions, but the south will remain mostly bright and rather warm still.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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