Good afternoon, gardeners and growers have been kept busy guarding against the effect of frost. Last night, an unusually cold night for may across the uk but especially in Northern Ireland, where the temperature fell to 6. 1, a record, you have to go back nearly a0 years to find a cold may night in Northern Ireland. Temperatures are slowly going to be creeping up over the next several days. We will lose these blues with a north westerly breeze thats been bringing the cold air, more of a southerly flow and warm aircoming ourway. Air, more of a southerly flow and warm air coming our way. A bit of rain in the forecast for some in over the weekend, its needed at the moment. There are a few showers across the northern half of scotland this afternoon, one or two in Northern Ireland. Much of england and wales dry. A bit more cloud, so far today plenty of sunshine and temperatures after that chilly start topping out at around ii isdc. Its quite breezy with these showers into north west scotlan
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