A special Friday Bank Holiday for VE Day this year but obviously not the one many of us planned. Nonetheless, a Bank Holiday it is and as far as the weather goes then it's not looking like being a bad day for most places with plenty of sunny spell around. However, we cannot promise a dry day as scattered showers will break out in places. .
It's a much milder start to the day compared to recent days with temperatures widely already into double figures. There is plenty of fine weather around too with sunny spells for many regions once any early mist and low cloud lifts. However, there is more in the way of cloud around across northern and western regions of the country, the cloud thick enough to bring a scattering of showers, especially across southwest England and over northern parts of Scotland. Changes today will be slow with many places remaining bright and warm, but we are expecting scattered showers to break out, especially across parts of the Midlands and central southern England by this afternoon as a low level convergence zone sets up. Some of the showers could turn heavy and thundery with a risk of hail, but many places will miss them and stay dry. It will become warm in the south with top temperatures of 21°C to 25°C, but many northern and western regions will be cooler with highs nearer 15°C to 18°C.
Any showers that do develop this afternoon will slowly die out this evening and tonight with many places becoming dry and clear although some mist and low cloud may form. Northern parts of Scotland will be cloudier with outbreaks of rain at times, this turning more persistent later in the night. This rain continues tomorrow, edging a little further south later in the day, but for much of the rest of the country it will be bright and warm again although heavy, thundery showers will break out in places by the afternoon.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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