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morning s weather. if morning s weather. you are just about to step outside, if you are just about to step outside, it is a chilly start to the day to day. in drumnadrochit, temperatures below freezing. birmingham, five, but currently seven in london. for many of us, starting off on a drying up. just a few showers around, but that will be replaced a bit later on by increasingly wet and windy conditions. you can see where we have the lines of showers, illustrated here, it is all of us we are watching, that ll come our way bit later. a sunny stop for many, breezy as well, and we have all this rain started to come in early morning across south west england, wales, into northern ireland, and pushing north eastwards. and the wind picking up particularly around the coasts and hills. temperatures of nine to about 14 celsius. as we
some of the sunshine could help to spark off one or two showers, but lots of dry weather today, with cloud increasing from the south west as we head through the afternoon, and the winds will start to ramp up as well. there will be some rain just moving northeastwards as we head through the second half of the afternoon, and that will be with us through this evening. temperatures lower than they have been. so very wet, very windy overnight tonight, and into tomorrow, it s still going to be very windy. there ll be some showers on and off throughout the day. still some more wet weather in the forecast on thursday, particularly on friday, but an improvement into the weekend, and feeling a lot warmer. that s it. i will be back in half an hour. good morning welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and jon kay. junior doctors in england begin a four day strike over pay,
go through the latter part of the afternoon and into the evening and overnight period, the wind will really ramp up. deals with exposure around the coasts, but even on land, looking at 40 to 50 mph gusts as the rain continues to push northwards, moving into scotland, depositing some snow above about 300 metres, some snow above about 300 metres, some wintry showers likely in the pennines, the cumbrian fells, wales, and also into south west england. low pressure still with us, but you can see the swathe of winds, the next batch coming in across south wales and also southern england. again we are looking up strong gusts of wind. 0n the coast 60 to 65 mph, 40 to 50 on land, and it will also be windy across the north sea, the north eastern parts of the north sea. these are the kind of wind gusts you can expect, it is going to be windy with temperatures ranging from seven to about 12 celsius. feeling cold if you are stuck under