02/05/2017 BBC Weather

a bit of sunshine. The output, it is set to stay the same towards the

weekend. Now Nick Miller with the National forecast.

I doubt you need me today that for most places, April was a dry month

and if you colour the map depending on how much rainfall you had

according to the Met office, it looked round, drier than average,

and a flick of white in Devon, more in Scotland, close to average and a

bit of blue in the far north-west, some places wetter than normal but

foremost, it was dry and the UK as a whole, the tenth driest April on

record, and quite a contrast between wettest and driest in the month,

including that list of -- bit of blue in north-west Scotland, 223

millimetres but in Edinburgh, one weather station recorded just three

nanometres. We are continuing that dry theme into May. Now we are

talking about temperature contrast. Yesterday, the warmest day of the

year so far in Northern Ireland but today it was the turn of Scotland,

21 Celsius the top, the warmest day of the year so far. But just ten

around the Humber, cloudy and breezy from the sea and these are the

contrasts that are set to continue as long as that breeze blows which

is for a few more days yet. The day ended with more showers in

south-east England and they are fading, by the end of the night,

patchy rain coming back into East Anglia and the south-east in parts,

but not much. Clear and dry in the north and west, Chile

in the countryside with a touch of frost, especially sheltered glens in

Scotland, after the one-day and a few fog patches as we start the day

tomorrow in northern Scotland, not lasting long. Plenty of sunshine for

Scotland and Northern Ireland and Northern counties of England.

Elsewhere in England, cloud increasing, pushing onto Wales

although Anglesey will hold onto blue skies. Maybe the odd light

shower but especially East Anglia and the south-east England, a bit of

patchy, light rain and a stronger, cool breeze, feeling very different

tomorrow, not so warm in western Scotland, maybe not as warm as

today. From cloud across southern parts, to end the day tomorrow,

again some light showers, still tomorrow night and into Thursday,

the odd hit and miss light shower around, some sunny spells for

Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, maybe not as much

clear blue sky as the past few days. Breeze picking up across southern

areas, strong and gusty going into Friday, two, pegging the

temperatures back along the North Sea coast compared with elsewhere,

maybe a bit brighter across southern parts on Friday. With high pressure

in control for the weekend, keeping low pressure at bay, the flow from

the North Sea along eastern coastal areas, mean West is best for

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