It’s another day with that SW wind. For London and SE Britain, the winds will be light, very light for Essex and Suffolk. It will be more blustery this morning for Scotland with a fresh SW then southerly wind for Northern Ireland and around the Irish Sea.

There is a mostly dry start across the UK. There are bands of thicker cloud and some of these, in western Britain are bringing a little light rain or dampness. Away over SW Ireland there is rain, the first signs of the next weather system moving in off the Atlantic which will bring a wet afternoon to Northern Ireland, NW Wales, SW Scotland and the Isle of Man.

It will be worth looking for Mars tonight. It was prominent during the lunar eclipse, last Friday, as it is currently close to Earth but this evening it the at its closest point since 2003 and won't be this close again for a couple of hundred years. Worth a look for the red planet, although there will be cloud about. Even areas in the north and west could see some gaps to the lee of high ground in the SW wind.