08/05/2013 BBC Weather

It is pretty quiet outside at the moment, clearing skies and

relatively light wind. Some surprise when we look at tomorrow's

headline - strong wind in the forecast and unseasonably strong

with heavy downpours. How did beget to this? Looking at the satellite,

we can see the skies clearing across the UK today after a cloudy

start and this band of rain moving to the north, that is what we need

to worry about, thus deepening centre rolling across us on

Thursday, tightly-packed isobars meaning strong wind is an issue.

Through the rest of tonight, clear skies in the east, along

temperatures to fall down to six degrees in rural areas and in the

west, or cloud, showers arriving ahead of the end of the night, and

by dawn, we shall seek heavy and persistent rain pushing into

Northern Ireland and then the wind does start to strengthen, peeking

through the middle part of the day, we could see gusts of 65 mph around

the coast of England and Wales and that isn't just in the west, right

across the country. Add heavy rain to that for the south-west and

Wales and look at those temperatures - looking at barely

double figures. That sunshine at the start of the week, it could not

be more difficult. And the chance of showers, brightening for

Northern Ireland in the afternoon but thunderstorms around and it is

wet and windy for northern England. Scotland fares best, lighter wind,

sunshine and a scattering of sharp showers from time to time.

Overnight Thursday into Friday, we see that a low centre working

eastwards into the North Sea and the wind will ease somewhat but we

have a breezy day on Friday and some further weather fronts

approaching from the Atlantic. Bringing scattered outbreaks of