Low pressure to the northeast and high pressure to the southwest leaves much of Britain and Ireland under a cooler west/north-westerly air mass today with sunshine and showers the order of the day. High pressure is likely to remain a dominant feature to the southwest throughout the coming week, leaving the country exposed to frontal systems moving around the northern and eastern periphery of the high.
It's a fresh, bright and breezy start to Sunday across many areas with temperatures across rural regions having dropped back down into single figures overnight. There will be a fair amount of sunshine around with many places continuing to see some sunny spells throughout the day. However, showers are affecting the northwest and these will tend to become more widespread across much of northern Britain by this afternoon, turning heavy in places with a risk of hail and thunder. Meanwhile, many southern regions will remain mostly dry and bright with just the odd well scattered shower breaking out. Maximum temperatures today will range from 13°C to 16°C in the north and 17°C to 20°C further south, so not far from normal.
Showers will tend to die back to areas in the west that are exposed to the westerly wind tonight otherwise for most places it will turn chilly under clearing skies with temperatures widely dropping down into single figures, and perhaps low enough for a touch of ground frost in sheltered northern glens. Under the clearer skies it will turn chilly with minimums dropping down into single figures away from south-eastern regions and coastal areas. The new working week then starts off on a dry and fine note for many but it will become increasingly cloudy and wet across northern Britain as outbreaks of rain move in from the west, the rain turning heavy and persistent across western Scotland once again.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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