Wales, the midlands and East Anglia we have showers and thunderstorms forming. The showers are bad because of a change in the Wind Direction with southerly winds colliding with Easterly Winds on this trough. Later this afternoon these bigger storms will be across Northern England, particularly lincolnshire and yorkshire into the North East, with Hail And Thunder mixed in with the really hefty downpours. As that feature continues to move northwards, south East England should continue to say try with sunshine, and china for the most part in scotland, Northern Ireland missing out on the showers. Should be a fine afternoon foremost continuing to stay dry with sunshine. Overnight the showers will continue to push northwards across Northern England into scotland, still with some heavy rain. Temperatures around six or seven, similar to Last Night. Tomorrow, starting with Rain Across Scotland again, pushing slowly northwards again, pushing slowly northwards again but not clearing. Colourful sc
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