at least in the morning, will bring some persistent rain — potentially heavy for a time — to south western parts of england. so this is early on thursday, also affecting wales and then moving to central southern england. it mayjust about clip the midlands too and some rain for a time possible in northern ireland. but late in the day, we think that rain will basically push away towards the southeast of england and then eventually to the near continent. but look at that hull, newcastle, aberdeen on thursday looking mostly sunny. that takes us into friday, and as we head towards the weekend, look at this — an area of high pressure builds south of this jet stream. the jet stream pushes the weather systems way to the north there towards iceland and greenland. and this here is fine settled weather. so with high pressure building this weekend, we are expecting mostly dry, bright, even sunny weather across the uk. look at that, edinburgh and belfast. and temperatures comfortably widely reaching 20 celsius. bye— bye.