A day of sunshine and showers for many regions today with temperatures widely into the mid-high teens but our attention is turning towards the southwest where a deep Atlantic low will push in later bringing a wet and very windy spell of weather to southern parts of the British Isles to end the week.

As far as today's forecast is concerned it's a fairly straight forward one in that, after a rather grey and overcast start for many, it will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. The showers will turn heavy at times, perhaps bringing some hail and a few rumbles of thunder, but as always with these showery set-ups some areas will miss the showers and stay dry whilst others see a fair number of them. It will be a very mild day with temperatures widely reaching highs of 14°C to 17°C, feeling quite warm in any sunny spells, but the far north of Scotland will remain a touch cooler.

Later on today thickening cloud and freshening winds will move into the far southwest bringing outbreaks of rain with them. The rain will turn heavy and persistent at times tonight as it pushes eastwards across much of Ireland, England and Wales. Northern parts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will stay drier apart from the odd shower lingering. It will also become very windy in the south with gales or severe gales developing through the English Channel and across the Channel Islands. Tomorrow sees the strongest winds easing in the south but many areas will remain mostly cloudy with further showers or longer spells of rain and the best of any drier and sunnier interludes will be across parts of Scotland.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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