We start the morning on a cloudy note across SE England and East Anglia, as a band of locally heavy and thundery rain along a cold front clears east here in the next few hours.

Heavy rain clearing east this morning

The cold front clears this band of cloud and rain into the North Sea by early afternoon. Then brighter but showery conditions, already across northern and western areas this morning, spread across all areas this afternoon. Scattered showers will affect many areas this afternoon, heaviest and most frequent across central, northern and eastern areas, where they'll be accompanied by hail and thunder in places too. Sunny spells in between the showers, most lengthy in the south. Remaining cloudy across northern Scotland, and increasingly cloudy across Ireland and Northern Ireland - with showery outbreaks of rain moving in. Still pleasantly warm in the sunshine across the south, temperatures reaching 23C in London, 19C in Cardiff, 18C in Manchester and Edinburgh, 16C in Belfast. turning increasingly breezy though.

Locally heavy and thundery showers, Storm Forecast Issued

Cloud and showery rain across the far north and west will then spread across many northern, central and western parts overnight, drier but cloudy towards SE England. Breezy across many areas, but not a cold night, with temperatures no lower than 13-15C across many areas, chillier across the far north of Scotland though.