Following the showers that many of us saw yesterday, today represents an improvement as a ridge of high pressure builds in to bring a drier, warmer and sunnier Sunday. The only exception will be the far north and west where an approaching low pressure system will bring more in the way of cloud and some rain or drizzle with it, but this feature will struggle to make much eastwards progress as high pressure becomes increasingly influential as we go through the coming week.
It's a fine but chilly start to Sunday across many areas with plenty of sunshine around but there is more in the way of cloud coming in across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and other western parts of the UK, this cloud bringing the odd shower in places. Many western and northern regions will see a fair amount of cloud today with some showery outbreaks of rain pushing northwards, especially across Ireland, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Elsewhere and many places will see a dry day with further spells of warm sunshine, but one or two showers will break out, especially over higher parts of Wales and northern England where they could be locally heavy, but most places will miss them and stay dry. In the sunshine it will feel pleasantly warm with top temperatures ranging from 14°C or 15°C at best in the northwest to 20°C or 21°C in the south and southeast.
A dry and fine night follows for most places with clear spells and perhaps some patchy mist forming, but for the far north and west there will be more in the way of cloud and breeze around with some rain or drizzle, the rain tending to turn more persistent in the far west. Little change is expected as we go into the new working week with the north and west remaining cloudier and damper, but the further south and east that you come the brighter and warmer that it will be.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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