will be persistent towards the end of the night. a fairly mild night for all areas between 7 12 celsius. the high pressure low pressure to the north, quite a wet start, with persistent, heavy rain at times across much of wales, south west england, and this starts to push eastwards into parts of eastern england, some questions over it, probably no further north in the greater manchester area, and by the end of the day working its way towards east anglia and the south east but it ll start to break up. the wind quite a feature of the system as it moves through across southern england and south wales. further north, sunshine and showers, temperatures between 14 17 c. some showers across scotland and northern ireland on thursday and friday, high pressure starting to building by the weekend, starting to turn warmer and more humid across southern areas with an increasing chance of thundery showers. that s all from the bbc news at six and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams
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