The next few days see quite a marked northwest/southeast split in the weather with the northwest seeing the worst of the weather as spells of heavy and persistent rain move in off the Atlantic today and then again during the course of the weekend. Further to the southeast, it will be drier, brighter and, by the end of the weekend, turning warmer from the south as high pressure remains close by.
For many parts of England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland, Friday is dawning on a cool and bright note with temperatures in single figures but the sunshine will help values to recover quite steadily this morning. It is a cloudier and, subsequently, milder start to the day across many parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland with outbreaks of rain moving in from the northwest, the rain heavy and persistent over the hills in particular. That rain band will continue to slowly edge south-eastwards today so that by the end of the afternoon it will be lying across southern parts of Ireland across to northwest England and southern Scotland. Brighter conditions with scattered showers will follow into the northwest, meanwhile for many parts of England and Wales it will be a dry day with sunny spells although there will be variable amounts of cloud drifting around. In the sunshine top temperatures of 19°C to 21°C are expected across southeast England but it will be cooler in the north with highs of 13°C to 16°C.
That band of cloud and increasingly patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle will continue to sink south-eastwards across England and Wales tonight, but the far southeast will remain mostly dry. Clearer conditions will follow on from the northwest but showers will affect northern and western coastal districts of Scotland and Ireland. The weekend then starts off with a mixture of sunny spells and showers for the north with southern districts seeing the best of the drier and brighter conditions.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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