What a start to June! You have to laugh sometimes at the Great British weather. It’s the meteorological start to summer and it does that. Snowdonia recorded over 50mm of rain (2”) and away from the gauges there was more. Gusts over 50mph and generally a miserable end to the day for many. Well done to Holbeach in Norfolk for managing to reach 16.8C ahead of all the wind and rain and Kirkwall on Orkney saw 10.7 hours of sunshine. Now the centre of the low is over northern Scotland and there are still some strong and gusty winds this morning

Remaining windy through today

Eastern Scotland will keep strong SW winds with early gusts near to 60mph this morning but both Scotland and N.Ireland then have blustery day with a fresh SW wind, moderate NW in the far north of Britain, strong later for Co.Down. NE England shares the Forth’s strong SW winds this morning. For England and Wales there is a swathe of fresh to strong SW winds, still gusting over 50mph around the coasts this morning. These pickup further today, extending into N.England and it will be very windy through the afternoon across England and Wales with gusts up to 60mph, land gales and particularly windy for Kent and the Dover Strait.

A little drier today, heavy showers for some

The rainfall today will be more localised as we see hefty showers feeding in from the west. There are some weather fronts in the mix, an old occlusion still across the Central belt bringing the early winds and rain here. Plenty of cloud and dampness over southern Britain this morning. Through the day another line of showery rain will move up through N.Ireland and NW England as more rain heads for NW Scotland and spills down the west coast. Other parts could see some showers but generally eastern and central Britain become drier and see more sunshine this afternoon.