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hello. rain has been a big feature of the weekend weather for many of us, but it wasn t a complete wash out. there was a little bit of sunshine to be had. sunday afternoon brought some blue sky overhead for this weather watcher in cornwall. but on the earlier satellite picture, you can see this curl of cloud. an area of low pressure moving away. but this frontal system here left behind. it has been very, very wet again today across some parts of southern scotland, northern ireland, most especially northern england. and that rain will continue to push its way southwards through the night. 0nly moving quite slowly though into the midlands, wales, eventually the south west of england, parts of east anglia. behind it, we get into a northerly wind and that s going to make for a rather chilly night across some parts of scotland. i think some places will get down to around four or five degrees. tomorrow then, here s our slow moving weather front. still only moving slowly southwards and eastwa
hello. rain has been a big feature of the weekend weather for many of us, but it wasn t a complete wash out. there was a little bit of sunshine to be had. sunday afternoon brought some blue sky overhead for this weather watcher in cornwall. but on the earlier satellite picture, you can see this curl of cloud. an area of low pressure moving away. but this frontal system here left behind. it has been very, very wet again today across some parts of southern scotland, northern ireland, most especially northern england. and that rain will continue to push its way southwards through the night. only moving quite slowly though into the midlands, wales, eventually the south west of england, parts of east anglia. behind it, we get into a northerly wind and that s going to make for a rather chilly night across some parts of scotland. i think some places will get down to around four or five degrees. tomorrow then, here s our slow moving weather front. still only moving slowly southwards and eastwa
then, here s our slow moving weather front, still only moving slowly southwards and eastwards, but behind it we get into that northerly winds, bringing some unusually cool air for this point in july. so our weather front bringing clouds and outbreaks of rain across some eastern and southern counties of england. first thing. it should pull away southwards, sunny spells and showers following on behind and then perhaps some more widespread showery rain into the far north west of scotland, particularly the western isles, as we head through the afternoon. temperature wise, pretty disappointing actually for this time of year, 1a to 19, maybe 20 degrees. that is below the average for late july. and then, as we head through tuesday, some spells of sunshine, a scattering of showers, not quite as breezy, but still rather cool with top temperatures between 15 and 20 degrees. now, as we head on into wednesday, they should start on a mainly fine note, albeit with one or two showers. but we ll see c