the 11th of may. it has rained a little more recently in parts of northern ireland and scotland. most of are going to remain bone dry through the week. not the case across southern europe, the rain accumulating over the next five days. the reason, thejet stream running a long way to the north, taking weather systems into scandinavia. one a long way to the south, nojet scandinavia. one a long way to the south, no jet stream anywhere inside close to our shores, is a high pressure remains blocking the weather pattern and keeping things largely dry. there will be variations, warmest and sunniest in the west. eastern parts cloudy and cooler. just as we have right now and the cloud will be melting away across the midlands eastern england and the north of scotland, staying pretty cloudy through the afternoon. breeze blowing in off the sea and temperatures for norwich, 14 degrees. 2a in the glasgow area and tonight, we bring all of this cloud in the east, roll it westwards and many a
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Welcome to bbc news. Spains Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, is chairing an emergency meeting of his cabinet which is expected to start imposing Central Control over catalonia. The Regional Government says it will respond with a unilateral declaration of independence. My colleague tim willcox is in barcelona for us. Welcome to a beautiful and sunny barcelona. Im standing here high above one of the best known streets in barcelona, just behind me on my left the cathedral designed by architect gaudi. In the next few hours we are expecting hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets here, pro separatism, very much against direct rule imposed by madrid as a result of article 150 five. An article that has never been used before. About an hour ago spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy convened an extraordinary meeting of the spanish cabinet to discuss which measures they plan to impose here on barcelona in the next few days. Its a slightly complicated process. They have to agre
Kent earlier. That is where the best of the sunny spells have been so far. Elsewhere, a lot of cloud out there and some rain to be had. Not too heavy and not too widespread but it isa too heavy and not too widespread but it is a bit dull and damp across the south west of the uk in particular, down towards newquay, some wetter weather and elsewhere, a lot of cloud and pockets of rain. We will see damp weather in the east of scotland. A cool day in aberdeenshire, temperatures not much higher than 12 or 13. Drier in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland but rather cloudy. Outbreaks of rain in northern england, particularly the north east and patchy rain in parts of the midlands and maybe west wales. Temperatures getting into the low 20s in the south east where we have already seen some south east where we have already seen some showers south east where we have already seen some showers and that could turn into the odd thunderstorm but pretty isolated. Still breezy in the south and west wi
Kent earlier. That is where the best of the sunny spells have been so far. Elsewhere, a lot of cloud out there and some rain to be had. Not too heavy and not too widespread but it isa too heavy and not too widespread but it is a bit dull and damp across the south west of the uk in particular, down towards newquay, some wetter weather and elsewhere, a lot of cloud and pockets of rain. We will see damp weather in the east of scotland. A cool day in aberdeenshire, temperatures not much higher than 12 or 13. Drier in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland but rather cloudy. Outbreaks of rain in northern england, particularly the north east and patchy rain in parts of the midlands and maybe west wales. Temperatures getting into the low 20s in the south east where we have already seen some south east where we have already seen some showers south east where we have already seen some showers and that could turn into the odd thunderstorm but pretty isolated. Still breezy in the south and west wi