It's quite a mobile pattern in place at the moment as troughs and fronts push northwards across Britain and Ireland with drier and clearer conditions in-between. In fact, the timing is quite good for many of us too with another mostly dry and fine day in store following the rain and showers yesterday evening before more rain and showers push in from the southwest later on today.

There are some brisk winds and showers affecting the north and northwest of Scotland this morning but these will quite quickly clear away to the north and then for much of Britain and Ireland there will be plenty of dry and sunny weather in store for today. Some cloud will develop turning the sunshine hazy during the course of the day, but most places will remain dry throughout daylight hours with temperatures widely into the high teens and low twenties, peaking at around 24°C in the London region.

It will be a rather different story over Ireland though where cloud will thicken from the west with a band of locally heavy rain, accompanied by fresh and blustery winds, pushing slowly eastwards this afternoon whilst at the same time a few showers could break out towards the southwest of the UK. Tonight sees that rain and those showers spreading further north and east across most regions, the showers in the south potentially turning heavy and thundery as they push up from the near continent. However, they will be mostly clearing away by the morning to leave Thursday daytime mostly dry and fine once again for many places.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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A big upgrade to all our weather model charts happened on Saturday...

Low pressure to the West of the UK and a succession of shortwave troughs running North through the course of the week, wonder what that means?