If football and warm weather is your thing then this weekend will be right up your street with the Euro 2020 football championships underway and high pressure building in to bring plenty of fine and settled weather to many regions. However, it's worth remembering that pollen and UV levels will be high or very high for most places.

Temperatures overnight have dropped down into single figures in some rural regions and so it is a fresher start to the day away from south-eastern parts of England where it is still quite muggy. There is plenty of sunshine around and for most places Saturday will be fine and dry with strong sunshine although some cloud will bubble up during the course of the day. For northern parts of Scotland there will be more breeze and a few showers and during this afternoon increasing cloud will turn the sunshine hazy across Ireland, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Top temperatures today will range from 16°C to 19°C in the north and 20°C to 23°C further south, but the London area will be a degree or two warmer.

That thickening cloud will bring some rain and drizzle to the far north and northwest tonight but for most places it will be a fine and dry night with long clear spells and just a few patches of mist or fog forming. This takes us into another mostly fine day tomorrow but temperatures will be warming up again with many areas into the low-mid twenties, but as high as 28°C or 29°C towards southeast England. Northwest Scotland will be the exception where it will be cooler and cloudier with a risk of some showers at times.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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