17/10/2012 BBC Weather

ambitions. From all of us here, Good evening, we have seen spells

of very wet and windy weather, sweeping across the UK today. Not

down yet either. Let me introduce you to the culprit, and area of low

pressure we will stick with until the end of this week. I don't think

it will look like this through Thursday and Friday. It is

weakening so we will lose some of the strong wind. We still have

bands of rain round that low centre. There will be more heavy rain in

southern Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight tonight, and now

on our radar you can see heavier rain pushing into the south. That

will particularly affect central and eastern areas of England

through the small hours of Thursday and may result in some localised

flooding. The strong wind to the south-west, and affecting Wales

could mean coastal flooding thanks to high tides here and with more

rain for Dumfries and Galloway, and particularly Antrim and Down local

flooding is possible here. After all of that, you may be glad to

hear tomorrow promises a quieter day. Lighter wind and rain are

eeing off. Not before we have seen heavy downpours to the north of the

UK, and that front in the east, well, still continues, to hug our

eastern coasts. Overall, though, a much better day for Scotland, some

cloud round, yes, still quite cool, temperatures just about making

double figures but much drier. Still heavy showers, possibly for

Northern Ireland. But I think we will see late sunshine for northern

England and Wales and the south- west after some showers through the

morning. Still a few sharper showers possible for the Midland,

East Anglia and the south-east, and some more persistent rain, possibly

on the eastern coast into the likes of Kent and Essex. In fact you can

just about see how the front wraps round to the north of the UK, so

there will be more showers in northern Scotland on Friday too.

The chance of more rain to the east on Friday as well. Hopefully that

front will continue to clear through into the North Sea. Overall

for Friday, though, not a bad day, a lot of dry weather to come and

decent sunny spells. Top temperatures round 13 or 14. And