A ridge of high pressure extending across southern parts of the British Isles will bring a fine and very warm day here but it won't last for a long as a cold front across northern and north-western regions sinks southwards during the next couple of days although it may be Sunday before that cold front clears the south of the country allowing fresher air to move down from the north.
For many parts of England, Wales and south-eastern parts of Ireland, Friday is dawning dry with a fair amount of sunshine around although there are some areas of low cloud to clear. For these regions it will be a mostly fine and warm day with plenty of sunshine developing which will help temperatures reach maximums of 24°C to 28°C, warmest in the southeast of England. To the north and west it is a cloudy start to the day with a band of rain sinking south-eastwards across Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-western parts of Ireland. This band of rain will continue to edge a little further southwards today, reaching parts of northern England, the far northwest of Wales and the rest of Ireland by this afternoon allowing brighter but cooler conditions to move south across Scotland where top temperatures are expected to be in the range of 14°C to 17°C at best.
That band of cloud and increasingly patchy rain and drizzle doesn't move too far tonight but will tend to become lighter and patchier during the course of the night. To the southeast it will remain fine and fairly warm whilst to the north it will also be mostly clear but feeling much cooler as temperatures here drop down into single figures. The weekend sees that cold front continuing to make slow progress southwards so Saturday is set to be fine and warm across southeast England but that cooler, fresher air in the north will extend to most places by Sunday.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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