:00:03. > :00:08.Hello from the village of West Overton in Wiltshire, where it's
:00:08. > :00:11.been raining for the last week. So where's all the water gone?
:00:11. > :00:14.On the programme tonight, I am investigating why this river is
:00:14. > :00:24.still dry and I help a local resident face the stark reality of
:00:24. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.her water consumption. I am shocked over it all.
:00:28. > :00:31.Also tonight, BBC meteorologist Nick Miller finds out why, after
:00:31. > :00:41.the wettest April for a 100 years, large parts of the country are
:00:41. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:46.still in drought. Drought? What drought? It has not stopped raining
:00:46. > :00:49.for the past few weeks. David Whitley heads south to see
:00:49. > :00:55.what lessons we can learn as Spain struggles to cope with an
:00:55. > :01:04.unprecedented spell of dry weather. And I'll be giving the latest
:01:04. > :01:14.weather update for our region at I'm Alastair McKee and this is
:01:14. > :01:16.Inside Out West. After the wet couple of weeks we've
:01:17. > :01:22.just had, you'd be forgiven for wondering why we're still talking
:01:22. > :01:25.about a drought. But take a look at this river at this time of year it
:01:25. > :01:28.should be flowing above my waist. Inside Out has discovered that
:01:28. > :01:38.despite the drought, Thames Water is still pumping out quantities
:01:38. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:42.which threaten the ecology of the river.
:01:42. > :01:51.The trouble with water, it's been said, is that they're not making
:01:51. > :01:55.any more of it. And yet we're using more than ever before.
:01:55. > :01:57.The water is important to us, but I haven't got a clue where it comes
:01:57. > :01:59.from. You open the tap and it comes out.
:01:59. > :02:05.But after two dry winters, our extraordinary water consumption is
:02:05. > :02:08.starting to hurt. I've stood in the Kennet at
:02:08. > :02:11.Marlborough in the middle of winter, and it is bone dry. That's heart-
:02:11. > :02:16.breaking. And now in the midst of a drought,
:02:16. > :02:19.some of the world's most important habitats are under threat.
:02:19. > :02:29.We have lovely rivers in this country. We're drinking them dry
:02:29. > :02:37.
:02:38. > :02:40.cos we don't value them. So you are taking me to another bit of red
:02:40. > :02:43.there? I'm on the River Kennet in
:02:43. > :02:46.Wiltshire, a source of water for tens of thousands of homes and one
:02:46. > :02:56.of Europe's rarest habitats, with a number of protected species.
:02:56. > :03:00.Now, I understand this is a chalkstream? Chalk streams get
:03:01. > :03:06.their water from rainfall that lands on the chalk downs and soaks
:03:06. > :03:11.in through the chalk and six in the underground aquifer, which is all
:03:11. > :03:19.of the gaps like a giant sponge. Then the water comes out in a
:03:19. > :03:24.series of springs. They are home Sturt trout, grayling, kingfishers,
:03:24. > :03:29.they encapsulate what is wonderful about British dreams. We get them
:03:29. > :03:33.here in the UK and a couple in France. That is it in the world. In
:03:33. > :03:36.terms of the world resource, we have them here.
:03:36. > :03:39.The drought has had a noticeable impact on the Kennet. At this time
:03:39. > :03:42.of year river levels should be much higher. In some places it's dried
:03:42. > :03:52.up completely. All of which is having a consequence on the river's
:03:52. > :03:55.
:03:55. > :03:59.wildlife. These are water shrimps and in a good survey we would be
:03:59. > :04:06.counting them in their hundreds or thousands. Since the flair has been
:04:06. > :04:10.dropping, we see few of them. These are water larvae. Since the
:04:10. > :04:12.river has been dropping, we've seen fewer and fewer of them. Less food
:04:12. > :04:15.for the birds. But it's not just the drought
:04:15. > :04:17.having an impact on this river. A little way downstream is Thames
:04:17. > :04:20.Water's Axford Borehole, which pumps water out of the underground
:04:20. > :04:25.source of the Kennet. Every day seven million litres of that water
:04:25. > :04:28.is piped to Swindon 15-miles away. For years this abstraction', as
:04:28. > :04:38.it's called, has been blamed for reducing water levels, and
:04:38. > :04:42.threatening wildlife. I've come to South Swindon where a
:04:42. > :04:45.considerable amount of the water from the Kennet ends up. I'm
:04:45. > :04:54.meeting the Warren family, with four children who all like their
:04:55. > :05:02.water. So you are quite a big family here? Do you find you use a
:05:02. > :05:09.lot of water? I try to keep the water down for usage just to help.
:05:09. > :05:13.But Bath, showers, washing machines, they are so many reasons. With
:05:13. > :05:20.baths, I do it every other day and a shower as well. The washing
:05:20. > :05:25.machine goes on once or twice a day send their -- sometimes. Do you
:05:25. > :05:31.know where water comes from? Thames Water. I don't know a lot about how
:05:31. > :05:38.it gets here, it is from the tap. We would like to share a year.
:05:38. > :05:42.would be called. I will lead on. Let's look at the river.
:05:42. > :05:44.We'll be back with the Warrens in a moment. But first, I want to find
:05:44. > :05:47.out more about the row over their water.
:05:47. > :05:50.For years, campaigners have fought with some success to reduce
:05:50. > :05:55.abstraction at the Axford Borehole. More recently even its owner,
:05:55. > :05:57.Thames Water, has admitted the need to take out less.
:05:57. > :06:00.However, in order to cut abstraction and still get water to
:06:00. > :06:10.customers in Swindon, Thames says it needs to extend an existing pipe
:06:10. > :06:13.from a local reservoir, at a cost �10m. But there's a snag.
:06:13. > :06:20.Under the terms of its licence, Thames Water is entitled to
:06:20. > :06:23.compensation if it's asked to stop abstracting. Compensation of �10m.
:06:23. > :06:33.And it's up to the Environment Agency, and thus the taxpayer, to
:06:33. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:37.come up with the money. It is quite a lot of money so would take a
:06:37. > :06:42.while to accumulate. Let's be clear, we are all working as hard as we
:06:42. > :06:46.can to get this is achieved as quickly as possible. Anyone who has
:06:46. > :06:50.been involved in the legal processes will realise they take
:06:50. > :06:53.time. We are working as hard as we can to get it done as quickly as
:06:53. > :07:00.possible. If they're struggling to find the
:07:00. > :07:06.money, perhaps Thames Water can help them out. Unfortunately we are
:07:06. > :07:09.a regional monopoly regulated tightly and we cannot just say, we
:07:09. > :07:13.want �10 million a more put everyone has built up. Although it
:07:13. > :07:17.wouldn't be much across every customer, only about a penny a
:07:17. > :07:20.month, but we still cannot do that because every penny counts.
:07:20. > :07:23.So, no solution there either. But with the river in drought, the
:07:23. > :07:26.stalemate between Thames Water and the Environment Agency is starting
:07:27. > :07:30.to wear a bit thin. Perhaps the government can step in.
:07:30. > :07:39.Richard Benyon is the Natural Environment Minister. I'm meeting
:07:39. > :07:43.him where the Kennet goes through his constituency. The solution to
:07:43. > :07:49.this that all parties agree on is a new pipe, but all this is taking
:07:49. > :07:55.far too long. Surely you can sort it out now? We want to see this
:07:55. > :07:59.dealt with. The Axford abstraction is the big problem in this river. I
:07:59. > :08:07.have to take a broad view across these issues and across all
:08:07. > :08:11.catchments. In my role as local MP, I want to see the axe third
:08:11. > :08:15.abstractions sorted as quickly as possible. There is no lack of will
:08:15. > :08:17.in government to achieve that. In July, a change in the law comes
:08:17. > :08:20.into force which could stop Thames Water's abstraction without paying
:08:20. > :08:30.them compensation. In the meantime, even with last month's record
:08:30. > :08:34.rainfall, the river is still under threat. If the drought got worse
:08:34. > :08:39.and the Kennet got dry air, which you reduce the amount you are
:08:39. > :08:43.abstracting from Axford? We would reduce it as much as we could, but
:08:43. > :08:52.there would be a point at which we couldn't because we have a duty to
:08:52. > :08:56.supply water. So you would have to keep taking water? Yes we would.
:08:56. > :09:01.have bought due to the River Kennet and this is where the water that
:09:01. > :09:05.you drink comes from. Because there has been a drought, take a look for
:09:05. > :09:10.yourselves. I am back with the Warren family
:09:10. > :09:15.and as promised, I am showing them the source of their drinking water.
:09:15. > :09:22.Although there is not really much water to see. I am actually shocks
:09:22. > :09:28.over it all. It looks like you won't get any water from it. I am
:09:28. > :09:38.quite aware, but it would make me even more aware. Even now, it makes
:09:38. > :09:38.
:09:38. > :09:42.you think twice. How careful everyone needs to be. Even if the
:09:42. > :09:48.warrants do manage to use less water, taking it from the Kennet is
:09:48. > :09:55.unsustainable and until a realistic alternative is in place, the impact
:09:55. > :09:58.on this river will not get any better.
:09:58. > :10:03.Coming up we will have a full weather forecast with Ian Ferguson
:10:03. > :10:07.and we are heading off to southern Europe where they know a thing or
:10:07. > :10:13.two about droughts. Look at the waterline in this reservoir. Look
:10:13. > :10:18.how high it should be and how low it is.
:10:18. > :10:22.Here in the West we have been on official drought status for just
:10:22. > :10:28.over two weeks. While it is clear this is due to a lack of rain, what
:10:28. > :10:38.is less clear is why this has happened. BBC meteorologist, myth
:10:38. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:53.Nick Miller, explains what is going The Lake District is England's
:10:53. > :10:57.wettest place and looking below, there were drought is the last
:10:57. > :11:02.thing that comes to mind. There is rain rich land and reservoirs with
:11:02. > :11:06.billions of litres of water. So with all of this on an island where
:11:06. > :11:10.it has not stopped raining for the past few weeks, how come so much of
:11:10. > :11:15.England is in drought? The Met Office is now looking into
:11:15. > :11:19.what is behind this change in our climate. The first place they are
:11:19. > :11:23.looking is the jet stream but carries a rain bearing weather
:11:23. > :11:29.across the Atlantic. The jet stream is displace that little bit further
:11:29. > :11:32.north. By the time whether France pushed further south into England,
:11:32. > :11:40.it is so short of rainfall and running into higher pressure and
:11:40. > :11:46.not doing the job that we want them to do. At this time of year, we are
:11:46. > :11:49.competing with nature for water. Everything around us is embarked on
:11:50. > :11:54.spring growth. You do not get England's green and pleasant land
:11:54. > :11:59.without it, but whilst everything around us turns green, what you do
:11:59. > :12:02.not see in some parts of the country is even more important and
:12:02. > :12:09.that is underground. It is the water underground, not
:12:09. > :12:16.reservoirs, that supplies 75% of the most populated parts of England.
:12:16. > :12:18.150 miles south-east of Windermere and I am in drowsed territory. I am
:12:18. > :12:23.visiting the National Geological Survey in Nottingham where they
:12:23. > :12:27.monitor the level of England's ground water. Using data from
:12:27. > :12:32.thousands of boreholes, they have created an underground map of
:12:32. > :12:39.Britain. The areas of green, the chalk, becoming a peer into
:12:39. > :12:43.Lincolnshire and look -- Yorkshire and the south-east, it is a really
:12:43. > :12:48.important aquifer. That only gets recharged by rainfall in the winter
:12:48. > :12:53.and we have had to relatively dry winters so we have not had the
:12:53. > :12:58.recharge we would expect. Ground water levels have remained normal,
:12:58. > :13:03.but as you move south east, they have dropped in volume by one-third.
:13:03. > :13:08.In the last couple of years, only four months have been wetter than
:13:08. > :13:12.normal, including April just gone which delivered record rain. To
:13:12. > :13:19.really find out how low our ground water stocks are, last week I
:13:19. > :13:24.joined Andy Mackenzie and his team to do a survey. This is the South
:13:24. > :13:28.Downs. In drought, one of the driest parts of England and below
:13:28. > :13:34.me the most important source of ground water, the chalk aquifer.
:13:34. > :13:38.Today we find out how far we have to go down to find water. The chalk
:13:39. > :13:42.aquifer is a giant pressurise sponge full of water which the
:13:42. > :13:47.Victorians tap with Wells like this one.
:13:47. > :13:52.The water would normally be about 20 metres below ground level.
:13:52. > :13:57.This is the exciting bit, how far down are we? It is looking
:13:57. > :14:02.promising. I can see a reflection at the bottom of the well, but we
:14:02. > :14:07.are only 30 metres below we started. Before long we pass the point where
:14:07. > :14:11.we would normally find water. one of the interesting things is
:14:11. > :14:17.that you are seeing very dry walls. If there was any recharge happening,
:14:17. > :14:21.you would see moisture or all the walls would be listening. They are
:14:21. > :14:28.not. Even though it has been pouring with rain, that rain has
:14:28. > :14:35.not made a jot of difference? it has not. It would take weeks or
:14:35. > :14:42.months for the water to infiltrate, if it did. But it will not. OK, we
:14:42. > :14:47.are just coming up to 34.4. That is the surface of the water. How does
:14:47. > :14:53.it compare with how low it was before? We have 180 years of record,
:14:53. > :14:58.this is the 5th or 6th driest we have seen it in April. Pretty low.
:14:59. > :15:04.The last drought was in 1976 where one dry winter was followed by a
:15:04. > :15:08.hot summer. Now we are saying save water. People were forced to queue
:15:08. > :15:13.in the streets to get water from standpipes. This drought is
:15:13. > :15:17.different, it is not hot and sunny, it is pouring with rain and yet we
:15:17. > :15:21.are told we could be in doubt until Christmas. No one is saying that
:15:21. > :15:26.this rain is not making a difference, of course it is. We
:15:26. > :15:32.have had one of our wettest April's, but that rain has still not reached
:15:32. > :15:36.where many of us get our water from, the aquifers.
:15:36. > :15:41.What the Victorians started were soon expanded to exploit the
:15:41. > :15:46.natural resources of the chalk aquifer. This is Friston aquifer,
:15:46. > :15:51.operated by South West Water. Supplying 2.1 million customers
:15:51. > :15:56.from pumping stations. Kevin, down there, that is so
:15:56. > :16:03.precious water. How low are the aquifers? We are in a serious
:16:03. > :16:07.situation. Our underground aquifers of very low. Rovers are flying in
:16:07. > :16:11.high levels and people think everything is OK, but that is not
:16:11. > :16:21.the case. We have pumps lower down to levels they have never been to
:16:21. > :16:22.
:16:22. > :16:28.The level of the church and her groundwater is a third lower than
:16:28. > :16:32.it should be after two dry winters in a row. We have, long way from
:16:32. > :16:37.the Lake District and it seems we're even further from that
:16:37. > :16:42.soaking rain that has been falling above ground. But down here, it is
:16:42. > :16:50.what a rain that matters and we do not -- if we do not get enough next
:16:50. > :16:57.winter, we are all heading into the unknown.
:16:57. > :17:03.With those two dry winters behind us, all eyes are on the third one.
:17:03. > :17:10.It could lead the country is facing severe water shortages. So how
:17:10. > :17:20.prepared are we? David Willey has been to Spain to see how the deal
:17:20. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:25.was such bright weather. This church has stood here for more
:17:25. > :17:31.than 500 years. But I should not even be able to be here because
:17:32. > :17:36.this is at a reservoir. That spire is usually submerged and the 1000 -
:17:36. > :17:46.- under thousands of tons of water. The reason why it is so dry is
:17:46. > :17:46.
:17:46. > :17:51.because Thames Water is suffering from its worst drought. Look how
:17:51. > :17:59.high it should be. Before those trees is where that water should be.
:17:59. > :18:07.That is incredible. Can Thames Water -- and Spain give us a look
:18:07. > :18:13.into the future? The taps and Barcelona almost ran
:18:13. > :18:17.dry and they were forced to share Pen supplies from France. Its 3.5
:18:17. > :18:22.million residents have had to completely change the attitudes
:18:22. > :18:28.towards water. It is incredible that something as simple as water
:18:28. > :18:34.had to be transported in in tankers into Barcelona. What was that like?
:18:35. > :18:39.His it is a first as far as I know. Luckily it did not have to be
:18:39. > :18:43.carried through on a massive scale on a long time. Before that there
:18:43. > :18:48.was a sensation that it was not going to be easy. If the drought
:18:48. > :18:57.was going to last far any longer, there would have to be rations of
:18:57. > :19:03.water. How has affected your future? We realised how precious
:19:03. > :19:09.water was. We had emergency measures. The children talk up
:19:09. > :19:16.about it a lot in school. They had an easier time adapting turning the
:19:17. > :19:20.tap off. Through simple measures like turning off taps, having time
:19:20. > :19:25.showers and teaching at what a conservation in the schools,
:19:25. > :19:31.Barcelona is on his way to be one of the leading cities have been
:19:31. > :19:37.saving water. People here use just 107 litres a day, compared to 150
:19:37. > :19:42.in the UK. Across the city, there have tried to use whatever showers
:19:42. > :19:46.to flush toilets as well as a recycling water in Barcelona's
:19:47. > :19:49.famous fountains. This will not be the first of the last time
:19:49. > :19:53.Barcelona faces drought and that experience four years ago in
:19:53. > :20:00.Barcelona forced everyone to change the way they think about water on
:20:00. > :20:06.every level. And this place was the answer - they built this mass of
:20:06. > :20:10.desalination plant and it is the largest in Europe. By taking sea
:20:10. > :20:14.water from the Mediterranean, the plant can produce 118 million
:20:14. > :20:22.litres of fresh water every day. But that is still only a fifth of
:20:23. > :20:27.the city's needs. So it is used as a stop gap when reservoirs are low.
:20:27. > :20:30.This system is much more secure because of this plant but this is
:20:30. > :20:40.not total security. The plant allows this kind to function
:20:40. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:47.between rainy periods. If there is a bright, the plant helps. Spain is
:20:47. > :20:53.a world leader in the technology but it is not a perfect solution.
:20:53. > :21:00.What are produced here is very expensive and the Barcelona plant
:21:00. > :21:04.uses enough energy to power a small town. Unlike Spain, this is where
:21:04. > :21:09.we use most of our water, generating electricity in our power
:21:09. > :21:13.stations. Most of the rest, around 40%, is used in our homes and
:21:13. > :21:17.gardens but the trouble is we used to much, more than any other
:21:17. > :21:22.developed countries. As head of water resources at the Environment
:21:22. > :21:27.Agency, it is Trevor Bishop's job to find a solution. So is turning
:21:28. > :21:32.salt water into freshwater the answer? We have one large
:21:32. > :21:37.desalination Mark -- plant near London. I think the likelihood of
:21:37. > :21:41.seeing more of these plants in the next 10 or 20 years is quite high.
:21:41. > :21:47.But we do not want to rely and desalination. It is very expensive,
:21:47. > :21:52.it produces a lot of card and so it is not good for the environment.
:21:53. > :22:00.Here, what gets me down here, is that a option for water companies,
:22:00. > :22:07.to transfer water to drier parts of the country. The Victorians started
:22:07. > :22:12.this as a way to manage water. In the future, moving water around
:22:12. > :22:18.even more, grating connectivity and the networks is going to be part of
:22:18. > :22:24.the answer, but not that all answer. Are we talking about a national
:22:24. > :22:27.grid of water? As far as electricity is concerned, it
:22:27. > :22:31.somewhere is short of electricity, we do not get blackouts and other
:22:31. > :22:35.parts of the country. For we are not talking about a national grid
:22:35. > :22:40.in the same way as we look out gas and electricity. What there is
:22:40. > :22:45.heavy and expensive to move. If we have a big mane of what it from the
:22:45. > :22:50.North of England to the size of England, we do not want to rely on
:22:50. > :22:54.moving around the water -- around the country. It desalination has
:22:54. > :22:59.problems and we should not rely and moving water, what is going to
:22:59. > :23:05.happen if we have a third dry winter? It is difficult to say but
:23:05. > :23:10.we would be no bad place. I do not think we have ever worked out the
:23:10. > :23:13.consequences of three dry winters. But you would be expecting measures
:23:13. > :23:17.to try and conserve water which would be dramatic. There would be
:23:17. > :23:21.standpipes in the street, people's water supply would be cut off, they
:23:21. > :23:27.would have to take containers down to the standpipes. We do not know
:23:27. > :23:30.the numbers involved, but it could be tens of thousands. As far as I
:23:30. > :23:34.am aware, there is no strategic national plan to deal with three
:23:35. > :23:38.dry winters and a role. I would like to be Provan wrong. I would
:23:38. > :23:43.like to think we would have a plan to deal with it, I do not know if
:23:43. > :23:48.we have one. I think our plan is based on hope that it will rain.
:23:48. > :23:52.Hope is a very poor strategy for a risky and important business. So is
:23:52. > :23:56.there a strategy are not? Caroline Spelman is the Environment
:23:56. > :24:01.Secretary. Yes, because we have to have contingency plans. Drought is
:24:01. > :24:05.a natural phenomenon. We have seen this coming and we have been
:24:05. > :24:09.planning for it. What we are putting in place other measures to
:24:09. > :24:14.deal with that. The temporary restrictions on non-essential uses
:24:14. > :24:18.of water in a domestic setting is something that we planned to do in
:24:18. > :24:23.order to conserve water and make sure we do not have to move to more
:24:23. > :24:27.stringent restrictions later. 3.3 billion litres of water which
:24:27. > :24:32.is a quarter of our water is lost every day. Do you think that is
:24:32. > :24:41.acceptable? Away need to encourage the water companies to reduce
:24:41. > :24:45.leakage. -- we need to. She the targets be more stringent? It is
:24:45. > :24:49.the economic regulator that says these targets, that at least are a
:24:49. > :24:53.challenge to the industry to meet. The Government is also pushing
:24:54. > :24:58.water companies to do more to collect up -- connect up supplies
:24:58. > :25:03.across the country. But she says we need to think differently about
:25:03. > :25:07.water and how we use it. When you got a dry country and you explain
:25:07. > :25:11.to them in a country like ours we used drinking water for everything.
:25:11. > :25:16.We wash our closed end drinking water. We wash up with drinking
:25:16. > :25:20.water. They are sometimes surprised by that. Can you guarantee that if
:25:20. > :25:24.we get that there dry winter we will not have water rationing and
:25:24. > :25:28.standpipes in the street? I am not deluded into thinking I can tell
:25:28. > :25:34.you how much rain we are going to get! It is far too early to tell
:25:34. > :25:38.yet whether we are going to get the wet winter we do need. But where it
:25:38. > :25:43.is most unlikely we will have standpipes this year, if we have
:25:44. > :25:48.another dry winter, that becomes more likely. He then the recent
:25:48. > :25:52.heavy rain and floods in the UK, Tocher standpipes may sound
:25:52. > :25:58.extraordinary but as they discovered here in Spain, the world
:25:58. > :26:02.is changing. Climate change and an expanding population means demand
:26:02. > :26:06.for water is set to increase. Pretty soon we will all have to
:26:06. > :26:15.think about drinking water as the pressures and scarce natural
:26:15. > :26:24.resource it really is. David Whiteley was some options
:26:24. > :26:26.open to the future. Before we go, with the weather for the next five
:26:26. > :26:30.days. Hello. As you been hearing, we must
:26:30. > :26:34.not confuse the issues of short- term heavy rain and the problems
:26:34. > :26:38.that has been causing with a longer term problems of the drought.
:26:38. > :26:42.Speaking of heavy rain, we also have a threat of more of that
:26:42. > :26:45.through tonight and into the first half of tomorrow. As we get through
:26:46. > :26:50.the tail end of the week and the weekend, some cloud around and it
:26:50. > :26:54.could turn cooler. Some rain about at times but Bank Holiday Monday it
:26:54. > :27:00.likely to be the wettest spell of the weekend. The Met Office has yet
:27:00. > :27:10.another yellow warning out for us the threat of heavy rain tonight.
:27:10. > :27:18.Write down the M4 corridor. -- all the way down. Potentially another
:27:18. > :27:24.20 are 30 mm of rain falling there. Here is the reasons why it. We have
:27:24. > :27:31.is area of warm air coming in. That is moving across us with an area of
:27:31. > :27:38.heavy rain. It will be embedded heavy rain. It will be embedded
:27:38. > :27:44.with some thunder. It will turn cooler. The orange and yellow get
:27:44. > :27:49.swept aside as we get through their bank holiday Monday, replaced by
:27:49. > :27:55.the blue, temperatures falling back to around ten Celsius. Let's look
:27:55. > :28:01.at how that hard stacks up, tomorrow the heavy rain easing away
:28:01. > :28:07.as the day wears off. Cooler than today. For Friday there should be
:28:07. > :28:15.some patchy and light rain, perhaps some showers on the south coast. In
:28:15. > :28:21.between that, it should be dry. As we get on -- into overnight and
:28:21. > :28:27.Saturday, it will improve later but will be windy air. Sunday looks
:28:27. > :28:33.better all round, but we see the chance of heavier rain on Sunday. -