watching bbc news. thank you for joining us. hello, for many of you the afternoon will be a good deal brighter than the morning. we started off a rather grey, misty and marquee. here is the clearer skies to the west, but these are shower cards which will continue to move in with the bright spells across northern and western areas. staying fairly cloudy across central and eastern england, misty over the hills, patchy rain and drizzle, rain returning to parts of northern england later in the day. a breeze coming in from the north and north west and that is dropping the temperature so it barely lifts from what we saw first thing this morning. coolerthan what we saw first thing this morning. cooler than in recent days, but that is where we should be at this stage in february. this evening
days so a significant storm surge, flooding rainfall and damaging winds. it s not the only tropical cyclone we are watching because herrick and ian is strengthening in the caribbean, pushing towards western cuba during tomorrow and potentially heading closer to florida, making landfall by thursday. both these storms had the potential for flooding thursday. both these storms had the potentialforflooding rainfall, damaging winds and a significant storm surge so very active at the moment towards the tropics. closer to home in the uk, its typically autumnal. the wind has been whipping up autumnal. the wind has been whipping up the waves, big shower cards around and the next few days, we stick with that theme. call for the time of year, blustery winds and plenty of showers. we have high pressure at the moment sitting in the atlantic, an area of low pressure approaching from the north east, squeezing the ice of that combination is drawing in north westerly winds. following the arrows, they c