for their lowest paid workers. rmt members who work for the 1a train operating companies are still due to go on strike, but this vote todayis due to go on strike, but this vote today is being seen as a breakthrough. we will have more of that on the news channel and the bbc news at six. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon, today is the spring equinox, the beginning of the astronomical spring. and certainly, we have been feeling the days getting longer. the sunrise this morning in the east of england was just before six o clock in the sun won t set in parts of northern ireland until nearly quarter to seven this evening. but you may not get to see too many sunrises and sunsets this weekend because the jet stream, high up in the atmosphere, is blowing strongly across the atlantic feeding what is essentially a conveyor belt of weather systems in our direction. it will often be cloudy and there will be quite a lot of rain. this is the rain we expect to a
to accumulate through the next five days. over the hills of cumbria, parts of wales, south west england, we could potentially see 100 millimetres of rain piling up so a pretty soggy week in prospect. and this afternoon, one band of rain is drifting north eastward across scotland although some bright skies in the far north. more heavy rain in northern ireland, wales, the south west later on and there will be showers elsewhere. but really mild, 8 degrees for aberdeen and perhaps 15 in norwich. and this evening and tonight, we will see this band of heavy rain working its way eastwards, there will be showers elsewhere. generally quite a lot of cloud, but if you are clear breaks getting into the west late in the night. the breeze strengthening. but really mild. five to 10 degrees as we start tomorrow morning. tomorrow will bring heavy rain across the northern isles, that continuing a crash at part of the day. elsewhere, spells of sunshine but some showers as well some of which will be heavy
we ve got this stripe of cloud that runs across the atlantic. it s that thatis runs across the atlantic. it s that that is going to deliver a relentless rain in the north west of the uk, particularly north west scotland, but it s also ahead of it driving this surge of really unusually warm air for the time of year. for most of us for the rest of today it s largely dry, largely cloudy, the odd spot of drizzle, equally the odd sunny spell but windy for all of us, gusts of 50 60 mph in north west scotland where we are also seeing heavy and persistent rain. at these temperatures, 15 17, when above where we should be for the time of year. the rain will spread into parts of northern ireland as we go through the evening but it reallyjust keeps on coming across these western parts of scotland where during the rest of today and tomorrow some places could see 100 millimetres of rain piling up, so that could cause one or two issues. elsewhere we continue with expensive cloud, a few clear clear