After a relatively fine Thursday, today’s weather will be dominated by a low pressure away to the NW which will stay near to northern Scotland throughout the weekend. This means the UK will have blustery winds, hefty showers from the west and spells of rain. After this weekend-coinciding spell of unsettled weather, there are signs that the UK weather should change next week, becoming drier and more settled, finally in August.

There is a Met Office rain warning out today for Wales, around Gt.Manchester and SW England. The frontal rain has moved in overnight for Ireland and Scotland then across the Irish Sea, with strengthening winds. There is some warm air caught up in this system, drawn up on the brisk southerly winds. So, although it will be a blustery winds with rain there will be a different feel to the air after the brisk westerly flow of Thursday. Ahead of the rain there will be a little fine breezy weather before showery bursts reach SE Britain and the main rain band plods over more England and Wales this morning, clearing Scotland and Northern Ireland but leaving scattered showers with the sunny spells. Temperatures behind the frontal rain could reach 20C but feeling cooler underneath the wet weather.