Another unsettled period of weather is under way thanks to low pressure residing over England and Wales. This low doesn't move far during the next 24 hours or so meaning that for parts of northern England and north Wales a lot of rain is expected courtesy of a slow-moving front with some places seeing up to three inches of rainfall before this system moves away to the east.
Thursday morning is dawning cloudy and wet across parts of Ireland, north Wales, central and northern England and down across eastern parts of East Anglia with this band of rain becoming slow-moving in a zone extending from south-eastern parts of Ireland across northern England today, probably not making it much further north of a line from Lancashire across to Yorkshire. The heaviest and most persistent rain is expected towards the east of high ground thanks to a strengthening east or north-easterly wind. Elsewhere and rain will tend to come in the form of showers so there will be some drier and sunnier intervals in-between, the best of these coming across central and southern parts of England where a mainly dry day is likely. It will be rather chilly wherever you are though with temperatures ranging from 4°C or 5°C in the north to 9°C or 10°C further south and feeling colder in the north where the wind will be stronger.
Rain will continue tonight across many parts of northern England and north Wales, only slowly tending to ease later in the night. A few showers will continue across the far south and southeast of England as well as around windward coasts in the north, otherwise for other inland regions clearing skies will allow for some frost and fog to form, the fog risk potentially greatest across parts of the Midlands and eastern England. Looking ahead to tomorrow and showery outbreaks of rain will pull away to the southeast with many areas ending the working week on a bright and chilly note with a widespread frost to follow on Friday night.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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