bbc news, i m back injust a few minutes time, stay with us on the bbc. hello there. most parts of the country will stay dry and sunny through the rest of the day. it is a chilly wind blowing once again with high pressure to the north of the uk, the winds coming in off the north sea, leaving a bit of. and down those north sea coast, it will feel particularly chilly, temperatures no better than 11 celsius, highest arbiters in sheltered western areas could make 18 celsius in the western highlands. i8 celsius in the western highlands. patchy rain heading into east anglia later in the afternoon, pushing eastwards overnight, the rain tending to die off for a while but mort wild weather coming into southwestern parts of later on. further north, clear skies and chilly, could be below freezing and grampian region by the morning. focusing on the wet weather because
talking about tens of thousands of linemen being pre-positioned to deal with the disaster there. as you know, jose, much more difficult to get those types of resources to this island in the middle of the caribbean. as you can see behind me right now, there is an urgent effort to try and get power to the remaining 8% of this island, its customers that still do not have power. we are in a neighborhood still without power more than two weeks after hurricane fiona. the hardest hit portions of this island, the southwestern parts of the island, 92% of customers here have had their electricity restored. but, jose, as you know, there is a lot of frustration here in puerto rico about the ongoing power situation here. many of the residents that we have spoken with do not trust the withdrew ma energy that took
in the northwest, closer to 1a or 15. now, sunday, another weather front is expected to brush southern parts of the uk and why s that important? well, we ve got the london marathon on sunday and here s the thinking, the rain will probably reach southwestern parts of the uk earlier in the morning, and then it should reach london. it looks as though the rain will clear by the time we get to the afternoon. so, we will call it a wet start to the marathon and into the afternoon things should dry out but there is uncertainty with regards to how quickly, and you should have a fine day on sunday. if you re wondering about monday, high pressure is expected to build across england and wales, fine weather here with light winds and pleasant conditions and turning a bit warmer but in the northwest, we ll get closer to atlantic weather fronts and rain expected possibly northern ireland and quite likely in the western isles of scotland. here are the temperatures in
temperatures in the sunshine across more southwestern parts of england and south wales with up we will see clear skies developing across many parts of the country overnight. however, there is cloud coming in off the north sea that will a few showers into the north east of england later. clear guys in scotland in the northeast, scotland aberdeen could be down to three or 4 degrees. quite a chilly start on wednesday morning. place starting dry and sunny, we will see cloud bubbling up through the day for that wanted to two showers continue and across the bar north of england the odd possible in eastern england but a dry day for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures reaching 19 or 20 degrees here for the higher temperatures across the south of england and south wales, mid 20s lightly but it will be quite a breezy day. stronger winds probably tomorrow, the winds not quite so strong on thursday. we still get high pressure extending all the way down from the arctic circle keeping it dry
9 most populated areas of the eastern sea board of the u.s. so you can see the potential high temperature records being broken over 50, and many plotted along the east coast, new york, boston, those areas. right now over 70 million americans under weather alerts. many located across the central u.s., the southwestern parts of the u.s. under excessive heat warnings and along the east coast. boston, hartford, new york, philadelphia, they have heat advisories in effect that meaning that the heat index as you step outside, this is what it will feel like on your skin, may reach 105 degrees. so the actual air temperature a little cooler, but still very stifling, upper 90s for the end of the weekend for the big apple. and it is not just the eastern sea board. look at this, st. louis to memphis to jackson, you can see the normal temperature underneath the forecast high today. st. louis will clock 101, so we re talking 10 to 15 degrees farenheit above where we should be for this time of year.