Most places will have a bright afternoon, with the risk of a few showers as the grey damp weather in the south clears away over the English Channel. The winds will only ease down this evening, veering to the NW, so colder.

Brisk N/NW winds along North Sea coasts will make Saturday morning feel colder. It will be a dry bright day with sunny spells but still cool for most. Southern Britain could see 20C. There will just be the odd shower caught in the flow over Wales, or eastern England but these are the exceptions.

Colder overnight Saturday into Sunday, with an isolated air frost in the north or far NE

Sunday looks fine and sunny as well, just some increasing cloud for western Scotland and Northern Ireland in the afternoon as a frontal rain band heads in to end the weekend. Overall not bad at all, just nippy after dark.

The Express are getting very excited (as always) about the incoming highly modified, remnants of Hurricane Dorian and TS Gabrielle, currently thousands of miles away from the UK. Dorian is the one which annihilated the northern Bahamas earlier this week and is now by the Carolinas. Gabrielle is just out at sea.

Rather poor taste after what the Bahamas have been through, that truly was “storm hell”.

By the middle of next week, some of these systems remaining energy will be mixed up in the airflow heading our way. There could result in heavy rain later on Tuesday and maybe on Thursday, also blustery winds as one extratropical low pressure moves past Iceland. It’s autumn, we expected wet and windy weather along with bright, crisp and sunny times too. We’ll await nearer the time to see the details of this wind and rain and if these will affect the UK enough for a warning. Even if impacts were expected (which they are not currently) it wouldn’t get a storm name as ex-hurricanes etc keep their names if their previous identity is clear. Do remember that if you hear a hurricane is on the way, in the words of Michael Fish, “don’t worry there isn’t”. Remnants maybe, yes.