A rather slack weather pattern across Britain and Ireland again today with slow-moving showers and scattered thunderstorms breaking out in places. As we head into the second half of the week things become more active once more as the next Atlantic low moves in to keep the changeable theme going.

It's a generally dry and bright start to Tuesday with some sunny spells and variable amounts of cloud drifting around, the cloud thick enough to bring the odd isolated shower in places. For much of the country it will be a bright day with spells of warm sunshine, but once again a scattering of slow-moving showers will develop during the course of the day, some of these showers turning heavy with a risk of hail, thunder and torrential downpours. They will be hit-and-miss affairs though and the heaviest downpours will be pretty isolated. Maximum temperatures of 20°C or 21°C will feel pleasant enough in the sunshine and with light winds.

Showers will generally fade away this evening and then for much of the UK it will be a dry night with clear spells and temperatures in rural regions dipping back down into single figures. Out to the west though there will be more in the way of cloud which will bring a few showers and this is in association with a trough feature moving in and this feature will help to bring more widespread showers tomorrow although some areas will again manage to stay mostly dry.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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