gradually arriving. overnight temperatures around 9 degrees under clear skies, 16 where we keep the showers. the showers keep going, hit and miss across central and southern england, bit of height out, the best sunshine further north and east, some of the rain heavy across western fringes of scotland and northern ireland. here eyes of 18 but we could see 26 or 27, it will be hot and humid yet again. but take a look at the weekend, low pressure sitting out to the west spiralling around that low, a series of weather fronts, bringing some heavy rain at times, pretty relentless across northern ireland and western scotland. not exclusively, there will be showers in wales and south west england and a few sharp showers elsewhere. if you keep some sunshine will still have some warmth into the weekend, 25 degrees, still 77 fahrenheit. and there are more showers and strong winds to come as well as we head into the weekend, so a little bit more of an autumnal flavour to our weather and
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