hello again. whereas england and wales saw some rain to start the day, in northern scotland it was dry. and we had some stunning weather watcher pictures sent to us showing us these sun halos, sun pillars and upper tangent arcs. these are all optical phenomena caused by ice crystals high in the earth's atmosphere reflecting and refracting sunlight, but some of them have been stunning today. some of that high cloud is on the satellite picture just here, but our eye is drawn to this area of low pressure to our south—west. it's this that's going to be bringing exceptionally mild air over the next few days behind this warm front. and across england, temperatures could get close to the national record for december, which currently stands at 17.7. we're likely to get around 17 degrees over the next few days. the average for december is just eight, so these temperatures