Once again today the weather across Britain and Ireland is rather slow-moving with some warm sunshine helping to spark some showers in places. We are expecting a more mobile picture in the next few days as low pressure moves in from the west but this will bring more widespread showers and thunderstorms.

After a mostly fine night it is a mostly fine start to the day with plenty of sunshine around in most regions. The main exception will come across western parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland where an occluded front is bringing more cloud and some showers. This front only makes slow eastwards progress today so for most places it will be another fine day with spells of warm sunshine. However, by late morning and into this afternoon a scattering of slow-moving showers will develop across the mainland UK, mainly across central regions where some thunder and torrential downpours cannot be ruled out. They will be hit-and-miss affairs though and most places will miss them. Maximum temperatures of 20°C to 23°C will feel quite warm in the sunshine and with light winds.

Any showers across England and Wales this evening will tend to die out to leave most places dry and fine overnight. Out to the north and west though there will be more in the way of cloud which will bring increasingly showery conditions in from the west and this more unsettled weather, accompanied by freshening winds, will take over across most regions tomorrow.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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