the national trust says that the recent cold weather has delayed blossoms in many parts of the uk, but the trust also says that when the temperatures start rising, we can look forward to a riot of spring colour, like these cherry trees in shipley in west yorkshire. and talking of temperatures rising, let s get the expert view with chris. well, we had temperatures up to 16 degrees today. that was in nantwich in cheshire. that is one feature of the weather this week. it s been pretty mild so far, more of that to come. it s also been quite grey and cloudy with rain around. more of that to come as well. this month has been a pretty wet month so far. alder grove, to the west of belfast, has had one and a half times as much rainfall as we would normally see in an average march. loads more to come. that area of cloud as the rain we had today and it will continue overnight. we have weather systems lining up in the atlantic, waiting to swing in. it is across western areas of the count
from the end, by layvin kurzawa proved to be the winner for fulham despite a spirited display from their championship opponents. harry wilson and andreas pereira were also on target at the stadium of light. arsenal women are through to the final of the league cup after beating manchester city. the game finished goal less after 90 minutes before stina blackstenius struck in the first period of extra time to seal the win. they ll meet either west ham or chelsea in next months final. meanwhile england goalkeeper mary earps has made the shortlist for women s goalkeeper of the year at the fifa best awards. the manchester united stopper started every game for england as they won the euros last summer and became the first keeper to keep 50 clean sheets in the women s super league. she s made the shortlist alongside chelsea s ann katrin berger and lyon s christiane endler. wales women s head coach gemma grainger has named a 27 player squad for the pinatar cup. defender gemma evans co
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here s louise lear. the weather in the uk has been quite recently but we have seen rain today for the debris so far has been quite dry but this was highland a few hours ago the you can see how heavy and persistent rain is. if we take a look, you can see how widespread it was across scotland today, accompanied by gales and severe gales at times. the white stuff is snow across the mountains, but if we push sequence on over the last couple of hours, you can see how quickly it fragments and weakens, now pushing its way into north west england across the lake district. that band of cloud and light, drizzly rain will sink in south but we will continue to seek a rash of showers across scotland, which could lead to some ice first thing in the morning on untreated roads. it looks likely the cloud continue to push south and east, so if rust free start to the morning, taken off a bit of drizzle. you can see weather weatherford sits through east anglia towards the south west but it will