windy out there as well, 100 millimetres plus of rain fell in the cumbrian fells last night, not unusual. this morning, about 50 millimetres across the north welsh mountains as well. you can see here, the rain is steadily starting to clear away, the rain is steadily starting to clearaway, but the rain is steadily starting to clear away, but it is still heavy for a few spots. showers following, and drizzle around the hills and coasts further south as well. but not where we need it, across southern and eastern areas, still dry and warm here, becoming drier and really warm across scotland and northern ireland as well. because of the breeze, we are seeing the fern effect, so that lifts the temperature east of the hills. 25 in the east of scotland but as much as 30 in the next hour or two in the south and east. it will feel oppressive again through the night, uncomfortable for sleeping, like last night. more rain to come in the north, so we maintain temperatures in the mid teens h
in the last few minutes, england s keeley hodgkinson, who is the olympic and world silver medallist, and scotlands laura muir made it through to the 800 metre finals . but disappointment for scottish team matejemma reekie, who misses out. england s women could seal their place in the semi finals of cricket s t20 competition with a win over south africa at edgbaston today. england beat sri lanka in their first match and if new zealand beat the sri lankans today and england win then they ll be through to the last four england we can take you to live pictures now from edgbaston. here they are. you can watch the match live on the bbc iplayer and bbc sport website. they need 5a for 26, south africa, 26 balls. we will keep you up to date on that one as we get it.
two weeks ago, keely championships two weeks ago, keely hodgkinson, on the track in the 800 metres heats. she was very strong, controlling it till the very end, and looking comfortable as she qualifies into the final that will take place on saturday. her team mate alexandra bell also qualified for england, and scotland s laura muir will also be in that final. thanks so much, kate. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. it looked cloudy in birmingham, a rather muggy feeling day. we knew july would be dry, it is the driest on record for some parts of southern and eastern england, but as you can see, the brown on the map shows less than average rainfall. it has been dry across the board, so we did have some welcome rain through the night. that is because we have low pressure with us for a change. it is quite