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
OverlookIng the river thames, our home for the next couple of hours, as we mark the openIng of a new parliamentary session. Its been a time of national crisis sInce the last State OpenIng, back In december 2019, and the governments new programme will No Doubt Include measures to recover from the effects of the terrible pandemic. The queen will attend todays event, her first major event sInce the death of the duke of edInburgh. Her majesty will be accompanied this mornIng by the PrInce Of Wales, but the usual display of Ceremonial Splendour will be more or less absent because of the current restrictions. The other big difference is that the number of mps and peers here today is rather limited. The Queens Speech is beIng delivered jUst A few days after the extensive elections In scotland, wales and england, which gave new impetus to the debate on the constitutional future of the United KIngdom. Earlier this mornIng, the prime MInister Borisjohnson left number 10 for the Houses Of Parliam