Temperatures are set to rise as we head through this week as high pressure takes charge and draws in some increasingly warm air from the near continent. For today though we have a weakening cold front slipping slowly south-eastwards bringing some cooler and fresher air into northern regions.

Although many parts of England and Wales are dawning fine this morning it is a rather different story for many parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland where mostly cloudy skies dominate, these bringing some rain and drizzle in places. This cloudy weather, with increasingly patchy outbreaks of rain, will slip slowly south-eastwards today, reaching parts of northern England, north Wales and southeast Ireland by this afternoon. Brighter skies with a few scattered showers will follow into much of the north and northwest with temperatures here in the mid-high teens at best. This leaves much of the rest of England and Wales with another largely fine and dry day with plenty of strong sunshine helping lift temperatures up to highs of 24°C to 27°C with high UV levels again.

That weak front continues to edge a little further southeast this evening and tonight but much of the rain will have died out by this point. For most places it will be a dry night with clear spells and although the north will be cooler and fresher with temperatures down into single figures, it will be warmer further south. Tomorrow sees high pressure taking control bringing increasingly fine and warm weather to most regions as we head on through the rest of the week.

METEOROLOGIST : BARBER

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