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Glorious across eastern parts of scotland and england but the cloud has a built in, heavy rain across northern ireland which was followed by a rash of heavy downpours and thunderstorms across much of ireland. If you popping up into wales as well. This band of rain, some heavy and fragmented, will continue northwards and eastwards this evening and overnight. In between, drier spells but further heavy and thundery downpours likely. These are the mean wind speeds. A breezy night, gusts hire around the coast and over hills. But a mild night, temperatures no lower than 14, 15 celsius. Low pressure is parked on top of us for friday so another day of sunshine and showers, longer spells of rain for the east and north east of scotland, risk of flooding here. Dan was likely in northern ireland, northern england down to wales. A better chance of seeing some prolonged spells of sunshine in the south where we could see 22 celsius, otherwise 17 to 20 celsius. This feature runs across the south of th
And you can see temperatures, disappointing for the time of year, 1214 disappointing for the time of year, 12 14 and probably showers lasting into monday and tuesday. I can tell you at this stage, there is no sign of any warmer weather heading our way. 0h, way. Oh, dear, thank you. A reminder of our top story: the prime minister says the new engine variant of coronavirus could make it more difficult to move to the final stage of relaxing restrictions in england injune. That is it, goodbye from me, and we join the news team is where you are, goodbye. Hello there and welcome to sportsday. I m gavin ramjaun. Plenty on the way, with build up the wembley fa cup final. Iam i am live here at wembley stadium, pitch cited, as leicester city look to win the fa cup for the first time in their history and chelsea go chasing a european and domestic cup double. Good news, but hurdles to jump for fans travelling to the champions league final in portugal after the government there allows tourists fr