across northern england, one of the wettest places yesterday, the weather is much brighter today, already seen plenty of sunshine coming out in cumbria, stepjust through the afternoon quite close to average for the time of year, however it will get unseasonably warm towards the end of the week, temperatures of some running around seven degrees above average come into the 20s quite widely. you can see the extent of today s sunshine, quicker cloud working to northern ireland, that is the first sign of this wodge of warmer air that is starting to work in, which will push its way eastwards overnight tonight. so sunshine for most of scotland, england and wales to the rest of the day, so a brisk north westerly wind blowing around our north sea coast, but cloud continuing to thicken for northern ireland, turning damp