06/04/2017 BBC Weather

to rise into the weekend. We'll see 22 Celsius on Sunday.

Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get

even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was

the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat

race. Under the cloud for example here in Cumbria, temperatures

struggled to make double figures. Through the night we're going to

hang onto a lot of cloud across north-west England, North Wales,

Northern Ireland and western Scotland, where there will be a bit

of drizzle on the breeze. Zero skies across many southern and eastern

parts of England, together with eastern Scotland and in the

countryside again, temperatures won't be far away from freezing.

Just briefly, at the end of the night, because it will warm up in

the sunshine. That's why we have the best of the early sunshine. The

cloud will break up across Wales, the Midlands and North West England.

We may hang onto more cloud in Northern Ireland and western

Scotland will stop with sunshine and light winds, temperatures will be in

the mid-teens. Pollen levels will be high across most of England and

Wales. Its flowering birch at this time of year that the culprit.

There's more sunshine on offer over the weekend, also pushing the sunny

skies across Northern Ireland and into Scotland away from the far

north. Temperatures for many others continuing to rise. We won't be far

away from 20 Celsius and for the Grand National, a super day, clear

blue skies, not a sniff of rain around Liverpool. As we've seen all

week, with high pressure in charge. That will sneak away into the near

continent on Sunday. Two things happen. A weather front spoils

things in the north-west. At the same time we have a southerly

airflow drawing in warmer air from a near continent, drier air. That

means more sunshine, particularly for England and Wales, perhaps East

of Scotland for a while. Some cloud will wander into western irony is

off the Irish Sea and it will be more cloudy for Northern Ireland and

western Scotland. It's not warm everywhere. The highest temperatures

will be for East Wales, Central and eastern England, where we could see

numbers as high as 23 Celsius. This warmth probably won't last be on

Sunday. That weather front in the north-west moves south. Little or no

rain again. We change the wind direction to more of a northerly and

that will introduce cooler air on Monday. In some places temperatures

could be 7-8 degrees lower than Monday. We are heading into the

Easter weekend, you can find details about that online.

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