Time for the headlines at 11 30pm. Time for the weather for the week ahead with lucy. Hello there. It looks like we will see a spell of Stormy Weather through the second half of the weekend. They could cause some damage and disruption. Before that though its a fairly calm and settle picture. Friday looks like it will be largely dry although a little windier in the west than it was on thursday. Here is the reason why. High pressure Still Holding on as we move into friday, although these weather fronts out was the worst will bring more in the way of cloud and eventually some rain. So for friday chilly start for many. There will be a patch of mist and fog that will be a patch of mist and fog that will clear quite quickly. Good spells of sunshine. Cloudy in the west. The cloud they can offer the odd spot of rain or drizzle. Temperature similar to thursday, 6 10 degrees celsius. As we move towards the weekend, out towards the atla ntic towards the weekend, out towards the atlantic a string
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System that will bring some Stormy Weather through the second half of the weekend to our shores. It will be carried across by a fast moving jet stream arriving as storm ciara through the second half of the weekend. The met office has named that storm storm ciara and it is the winds that we are particularly keeping an eye on. It looks like we will see strong, damaging and potentially destructive winds across the uk later saturday and on sunday. More on that in a moment. First, todayis more on that in a moment. First, today is the calm before the storm. Beautiful sunshine in this photo sentin beautiful sunshine in this photo sent in by a weather watcher earlier. There will be patches of mist and fog slow to clear, but are generally dry and fine afternoon. Good spells of sunshine and areas of cloud. Temperature is around 6 iidc. This evening and overnight, it remains settled, we see clear spells, patches of cloud. Again, a few patches of mist and fog reforming. More low cloud for eastern
Look at the difference, a ridge of High Pressure starting to building from the south west. That will help to settle things down. We can take a bit of a breather. The next low pressure system is just waiting in the wings. For many of us, friday is a different feeling day. The wins will be that bit lighter, a good deal of sunshine around, still the chance of an isolated shower. Many places remaining dry. Down the east coast, there will be quite a cool breeze, so here, temperatures tempered a bit. Temperatures more or less in line with todays values but with lighter wind and more sunshine it should be a more pleasant. The rain starts to move into South West England and wales before the end of the day. As we head into the weekend, guess what . Low pressure is backin weekend, guess what . Low pressure is back in charge. A spell of rain working its way through saturday and into sunday. But on into next week asi into sunday. But on into next week as i mentioned, it looks as though High Pressu