north west of scotland and northern ireland, bringing pointless feet of rain along west facing coast. elsewhere a slow improvement, brighter skies, some glimpses of sunshine continuing, where that happens we may see temperatures peaking at 21 degrees, above where they should be for the time of year. through this evening and overnight we keep the front to the far north west spilling cloud to the west again, clearer skies to the east so temperatures may fall into single figures but that this would be unlikely to see the best of the sunshine to start the weekend. it looks like weather fronts orange mean warm , up to the north west with the cooler tones cooler and that will be the story as the weekend progresses. saturday starts with some sunshine across central and southern areas, the weather front meandering across the scottish borders to the north of england and north wales, light showers by then.