05/08/2011 BBC Weather

Good evening. This summer is proving to be

neither one thing or the other. It teases us with a few days of fine

weather, this was the scene on the Kent coast earlier this week, but

up the road in East Yorkshire violent thunderstorms caused some

flooding. The weather will remain as fickle this weekend. It will be

cooler and many will see some outbreaks of heavy rain, had fully

with brightness in between. At the moment, the clouds are ganging up

on us from the West and although many will stay dry through the

night, the cloud will fit in and before the end of the night we will

see some showery outbreaks developing, notably across Northern

Ireland. It will be a fresher night, with temperatures between 10 and 14

degrees, 0 to Sat. A dry start to the weekend for many, and if you

are lucky you will see some sunshine, but the clouds will be

developing. As we head towards lunchtime, some heavy and slow-

moving downpours developpe. More prolonged rain across parts of

northern England in the afternoon. Some bright spells in between, the

northern half of Scotland seeing some sunshine and so, too, for

Northern Ireland. Not desperately warm, there. For Wales, cloud and

showers in the West, brighter further east for a time. Not ideal

holiday weather in Devon and Cornwall, a lot of cloud and a cool

breeze. A breeze in the Channel, but wet weather pushing up. There

will be some brightness a press -- across parts of East Anglia, and

then we run into the wet weather in northern England. Do not take the

detail too literally, it is still to play for, but it looks like it

will develop to the north into the early hours of Sunday morning. Some

nasty conditions, it could cause some flooding. We could see 20 to