Mixed fortunes with the cloud cover to start the day. A lovely morning for some parts of the UK with sunshine, light winds and blue skies. Other areas still have the frontal cloud from yesterday’s rain, around the English Channel. And there has been a blanket of low cloud affecting eastern England which stretches right across the W.Midlands into Wales but it is being eroded right now.



Satellite image from NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland - http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/

Changes are already taking place in the far NW of the UK with freshening South winds, more cloud and some rain into the Western Isles. For much of Britain the fine weather will continue with more warm sunshine and temperatures up into the mid teens with 17C likely in the east. Although around Humberside and east coast Yorkshire could keep the cloud for longest today and not warm up until later. London should reach 19C and the Moray coast 18C. There will be freshening SW winds over Scotland today which is why north of the Grampian could do so well with their temperatures. There will also be a brisk SW wind through the Irish Sea with western Wales and Cumbria only reaching 11/12C but Manchester in the shelter of Welsh mountains up to 17C. N.Ireland will see the cloud increase as the winds pick up. Patchy rain will move through for the middle of the day with a few heavier pulses and ease off a bit mid afternoon. It stays blustery with a scattering of showers up to 12/13C. The rain reaches to the Scottish Islands on the west coast by lunchtime and then creeps over the western mainland in the afternoon, temperature 10/11C and windy.



The frontal rain in the far north works its way southwards during Friday night, with the cloud making it a milder night for England and Wales, still down to 4C in N.Ireland and Scotland. Any dampness of cloud over SE Britain early on Saturday morning will soon disappear leaving more fine bright and sunny weather. There will be a westerly wind, which will be fresh over Scotland, N.England and N.Ireland, strengthening for W.Scotland as it drives in more showers. Western Scotland temperatures struggle with the wind and many showers only 8C but up to 12C in the sheltered east. N.Ireland will have a blustery but bright Saturday up to a cool 12C. N.England fine but cool at 13C in the breeze. Wales sunny spells, dry but cool 12-14C. Central and southern England, breezy and sunny but air temperatures only up to 16C, still worth putting sunscreen on though.

Saturday night looks dry and cool, with temperatures falling away under the clear skies. Heavy showers continue to affect NW Scotland and then north Argyll, there’s plenty of rain this weekend for W.Scotland. Still a brisk Westerly for northern UK but lighter winds for Britain. e2808bSunday is a bit like today, fine and sunny start but rain into the far NW which spreads over N.Ireland and into Scotland, with blustery winds.



Similar temperatures and staying fine for much of England, Wales and E.Scotland but turning wet for N.Ireland and rest of Scotland. The amount of rain for Lochaber and Argyll and the Trossachs could cause some localised problems on the roads/rail by Sunday night into Monday morning.