Low pressure currently centred over the Bay of Biscay will be drifting back northwards during the next 24 hours or so to be centred close to southwest England as we head into the weekend. An associated frontal system will be pushing northwards bringing more rain with it, the heaviest and most persistent rainfall again coming towards the southwest of the country.
Friday is dawning on a generally cloudy note for many regions once again and although there is plenty of dry weather around, showery outbreaks of rain are affecting parts of central and northern England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This showery rain will continue to push west/northwest today with further pulses of rain developing across the North Sea and moving into parts of Scotland later. Somewhat brighter conditions will develop across central and southern counties of England today, but another area of cloud and rain is already affecting the Channel Islands and parts of southwest England. This continues to edge slowly north and west today, the heaviest and most persistent rain occurring towards the southwest. In the brighter areas it will be feeling warmer today with top temperatures of 20°C to 22°C but for many places highs in the mid-high teens will be more commonplace.
Outbreaks of showery rain across southern regions, locally heavy and perhaps thundery, will continue to push north across central and southern regions tonight with drier conditions following into the south. Showers towards the north will also ease and in the drier regions some mist and low cloud will form. This takes us into another rather cloudy and murky start to the weekend but some warm sunny spells will break out tomorrow which will then act as a trigger for some heavy and potentially thundery showers to break out by the afternoon.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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