gordon, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. today some of us have had sunshine and some of us have had this flat cloud, the structure, list cloud you can see here. the cloud gaming is planned last night across parts of being at and eastern scotland but it loitered all day and that had a massive impact on temperature is particularly across parts of the midlands and eastern england where every look at somewhere like sheffield, 18 yesterday, 13 underneath that cloud, parts of western scotland bit more cloud. prestwick dropping 5 degrees as well on account of those slightly more cloudy skies. tonight the cloud is still there, it will stay all night across much of england, reaching east wales, across northern and eastern scotland at the far north of scotland might see some spits of rain and drizzle as well for parts
things are cheering up in the next few days with the weather becoming drier and warmer and all down to what has been going on in the atlantic. this warmer air has been moving north and that helps to form these waves in the jet stream. for us that brings high pressure but overin us that brings high pressure but over in europe there is going to be some very nasty thunderstorms likely to bring some pretty nasty flash flooding in the next few days. but for us these waves create a big area of high pressure and that is increasingly going to be moving of the uk. that is going to bring increasingly fine weather. today is pretty nice as well, because england and wales will have this kind of flat cloud which will break up more as we go through the evening so increasing amounts of sunshine. the exception is east anglia and it will take some time for that cloud to