here s sarah keith lucas. a mixed picture, some cloud a grey skies, but other areas see sunshine and that is summed up perfectly by this weather watcher. blue sky overhead and not far away, the strata cumulus cloud and that can be seen nicely from above in the satellite image. quite a lot of cloud for england and wales, but we have the stripe of sunshine in lincolnshire towards bedfordshire and into dorset. and for much of scotland and northern ireland, some sunnier skies after this morning s cloud and rain has cleared to the cell. we still have a very weak lingering weather front, so that is producing a few spots of rain across northern england and wales, you can see it here. but fizzling away and it will be high pressure that winds out and keeps things largely dry and settled for many areas for the rest of today and the next few days for many of us. drizzly rain for northern ireland, wales, mainly over the higher ground, spots into the far south west of england. to the sout