to see what is going on here. alex lourie there. you are watching bbc news. hello. i think we've just about all seen some rain at some stage this weekend. there's also been a lot of sunshine around, a real mixture of sunshine and showers, courtesy of an area of low pressure to the north—west of the uk. looking through the week ahead, though, things are going to get a lot drier, particularly by the time we get to thursday and friday. quite a wet spell potentially, though, midweek. for sunday, this is the area of low pressure that's sat to the northwest of the uk, throwing out some showers, pushing a front eastwards. it's still there as we move into the early hours of monday, so some wetter weather to come for northern ireland and western scotland. it's going to clear across eastern england, but for the southwest of england, it looks like we will see some heavier showers being thrown up from the south. they're actually tied in with an area of low pressure