:00:00. > 3:59:59few days, you can see we have a bit of a messy couple of days whth some
:00:00. > :00:00.of a messy couple of days with some heavy rain and
:00:00. > :00:00.of a messy couple of days with some heavy rain and showers but here'sing
:00:00. > :00:08.Matt with the national weather. Good evening. Given the recent
:00:09. > :00:13.change in weather conditions I am esure a few of you have mentioned
:00:14. > :00:17."autumn" who would blame new western Scotland today a mid-August day,
:00:18. > :00:21.driving wind, strong winds, temperatures at one po incompetent
:00:22. > :00:25.were just 13. A better day tomorrow, here, though. The cloud we have had
:00:26. > :00:28.today will work southwards. You will notice still unstable air across
:00:29. > :00:31.England and Wales. Lively thunderstorms through today. They
:00:32. > :00:35.are fading away by in large. One or two showers in the West but longer,
:00:36. > :00:38.clearer periods here. We still have that cloud, pushing through to the
:00:39. > :00:43.Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and the north Midlands by the
:00:44. > :00:46.end of the night. But rather than persistent rain, away from the hills
:00:47. > :00:50.it'll be occasional bursts. Temperatures, like last night,
:00:51. > :00:54.around 12 or 13. We are into the cooler conditions now. That process
:00:55. > :01:00.is also taking place in France. A stormy one. The storms and risk of
:01:01. > :01:05.flash floods push through to Alpine regions. The big culprit - the area
:01:06. > :01:11.of low pressure, still school. Bertha producing galeforce winds in
:01:12. > :01:16.Scotland it begin A weather front in central areas, the cloud will drift
:01:17. > :01:20.southwards, taking e away some of the morning sunshine. Anyone could
:01:21. > :01:24.see a shower, most chiefly through the north-east of Scotland but hit
:01:25. > :01:29.and miss. Less showers than we have had. Even if you do catch a shower,
:01:30. > :01:33.perhaps a longer spell of dry than wet. With lighter compared to what
:01:34. > :01:38.they have h temperatures will be back up to where they should be, 18
:01:39. > :01:42.to 23. We go into the night dry but by Thursday, the showers get going
:01:43. > :01:46.again and we are back to heavy and thundery ones across Wales,
:01:47. > :01:51.south-west England and spreading across other parts of the Midlands.
:01:52. > :01:55.A few showers further north. Some dry and sun quli but temperatures
:01:56. > :02:00.down. Showers fading into the west into Friday. The ridge of high
:02:01. > :02:04.pressure building in. Not enough to stop showers in eastern England.
:02:05. > :02:07.Again some could be heavy and thundery. Further west drier and
:02:08. > :02:12.Britter. Not especially warm. Night that follow will be one of the
:02:13. > :02:16.coolest nights for sometime with quite widely, temperatures in single
:02:17. > :02:21.figures so. A chilly start to the weekend but the ridge of pressure
:02:22. > :02:27.with us in the south. Most will have a repre-dominantly dry day but more
:02:28. > :02:29.wind and rain skreepg from the east. And we will be back