Welcome to July! An increasingly slack pressure pattern is setting up for the midweek period but with pressure remaining relatively low so the risk of showers will linger in many regions. However, the far north will be turning drier as some cool air feeds down from the Arctic for a time.
Many places are starting Wednesday off with a lot of cloud around, the cloud bringing a scattering of showers with it with the best of any early drier and brighter spells tending to be towards some eastern districts. Whilst many parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England will remain mostly cloudy today with occasional bursts of rain or drizzle, drier and brighter conditions will develop across northern Scotland. Meanwhile, skies will tend to brighten up across many parts of England, Wales and Ireland, but this will help to trigger some locally heavy showers with a risk of hail and thunder in places. Some of these showers will be slow-moving with light winds, but in any sunny spells it will feel pleasantly warm with maximum temperatures of 20°C to 22°C in south and east, but it will be progressively cooler the further north that you are with highs across northern Scotland nearer 12°C to 15°C.
Showers in the south will tend to die out tonight and then for the north and south of the country it will become mostly dry with some clear spells which will lead to a chilly night across northern Scotland. It will remain milder in the south with temperatures also holding up across Northern Ireland and northern England where cloudier skies with showery rain slowly sink a little further south. Looking ahead to tomorrow and for central and southern regions another day of sunny spells and scattered showers is expected but for the north and west it should be drier and brighter as a ridge of high pressure builds in for a time.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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