The weekend gets underway with a shallow area of low pressure drifting slowly northwards across Britain and Ireland, this feature having brought some pretty lively weather in places overnight with thunderstorms bringing torrential downpours, gusty winds and even reports of hail and flash flooding in places.

Not everywhere has seen the storms with many places missing them, but we start this morning with showery outbreaks of rain, locally heavy and still thundery in places, continuing to make their way northwards. However, the far north of Scotland is still mainly dry and there are still some drier and clearer slots in-between the showers further south. The trend today will be for showers and longer spells of rain to continue to push northwards with parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland ending up with a pretty wet day. Further scattered heavy downpours, perhaps thundery in places, will follow on across parts of Ireland, Wales, western and northern England but by this afternoon many parts of southern and eastern England will be mostly fine and dry. After a humid start it will still be rather muggy towards the east and southeast with temperatures in the low-mid twenties, but for much of the north and west it will be cooler with values back down in the mid-high teens.

Rain and showers will continue to pull away to the north and northeast across Scotland tonight with many places become drier, clearer and somewhat fresher from the west. Some rain will move into Ireland during the night and this will push into parts of the southwest tomorrow otherwise for many places tomorrow is looking drier, brighter and fresher although a few showers will break out over central and southern regions for a time.

METEOROLOGIST : BARBER

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