The Bank Holiday weekend is almost upon us (unless you're in Scotland or Ireland) and the weather is in a typically mixed frame of mind with low pressure bringing some rather lively weather to the south today before a ridge of high pressure builds in during the course of the weekend to bring drier and brighter conditions to most places but with some chilly nights.
There is a fair amount of cloud around this morning across many parts of the country with the best of any early sunshine to be found across parts of northern Scotland where it is a chilly start. Scattered heavy showers are affecting many parts of England and Wales with some heavier and more persistent spells of rain affecting northern parts of England, especially towards northeast England, and across towards Northern Ireland. It remains rather cloudy and wet for northern England today with some of that rain moving down into the Midlands this afternoon. For southern and south-eastern counties of England, further heavy showers and thunderstorms will break out bringing some locally torrential downpours. Meanwhile, much of northern Scotland will be mostly fine apart from the odd shower, with these mostly fine conditions spreading further south into southern Scotland as well as across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It will be cool in the north and in the wetter areas with maximum temperatures of 14°C to 17°C, but it will be a touch warmer for brighter parts of the south with highs of 18°C to 21°C but the freshening northerly wind will make it feel cooler.
Showers and longer spells of rain will gradually become confined to East Anglia tonight leaving some scattered showers around windward coasts. With clearing skies elsewhere it will be a much cooler night compared to recently, especially in the south, with temperatures dropping back into single figures. Tomorrow sees further rain across easternmost parts of England but for many other places the weekend will start off on a dry and bright note with some good sunny spells around and just a few showers around coasts.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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