:00:00. > :00:00.weekend, showers or longer spells of rain at times, cool and windy
:00:00. > :00:00.weather. I rain at times, cool and windy
:00:00. > :00:09.weather. I will leave you with the National forecast and Nick Miller.
:00:10. > :00:13.Away from Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean, our weather has probably
:00:14. > :00:17.been the quietest of the week but things are about to turn more active
:00:18. > :00:20.towards the weekend relatively speaking. A little bump in the
:00:21. > :00:24.isobars, a ridge of high pressure keeping most places dry today but
:00:25. > :00:28.low-pressure waiting in the wings and more to come across the weekend
:00:29. > :00:32.as I will show you. Overnight, more cloud pushing into western areas and
:00:33. > :00:37.a few outbreaks of rain and showers. The East will stay mainly dry with
:00:38. > :00:39.clear spells. This is where we will find the lowest amateurs, into
:00:40. > :00:45.north-east Scotland, into single figures, most of us around 10-14.
:00:46. > :00:49.Tomorrow, the story turns cloudier and wetter from the West. But first
:00:50. > :00:53.thing, still very promising, south-west England and Wales, a few
:00:54. > :00:57.showers around and spots of rain, some places starting dry and a
:00:58. > :01:01.further east, as you can see, east of the Pennines, some sunshine to
:01:02. > :01:04.begin the day so pleasant start but north-west England, some showers,
:01:05. > :01:08.Northern Ireland plenty of cloud with outbreaks of rain moving
:01:09. > :01:11.through during the day, not necessarily all day. Scotland quite
:01:12. > :01:14.wet to begin with, especially in the north-west with the wind picking up
:01:15. > :01:18.and outbreaks of rains south-eastwards during the day but
:01:19. > :01:22.it will always be most persistent and heavy in the West. More rain
:01:23. > :01:25.heads through Northern Ireland, into north-west England in the afternoon,
:01:26. > :01:29.some crossing the Pennines, patchy rain for Wales and south-west
:01:30. > :01:32.England and later the West Midlands, but East Midlands, East Anglia and
:01:33. > :01:35.the south-east, increasing cloud, maybe a shower but many places will
:01:36. > :01:40.stay dry and get the highest temperatures. Cloud, rain and wind
:01:41. > :01:44.picking up, around 14 Celsius in the north-west. If you stay dry by day,
:01:45. > :01:47.there chance of a shower or outbreaks of rain on Thursday
:01:48. > :01:50.evening and evening and night and on Friday, we could well see a
:01:51. > :01:53.slow-moving weather front across southern England and South Wales
:01:54. > :01:57.giving a longer spell of perhaps heavy rain for a time and north of
:01:58. > :02:01.that, sunshine and also heavy showers, perhaps with thunder all
:02:02. > :02:05.hail. Looking into the weekend, low-pressure in control and plenty
:02:06. > :02:09.more showers around during what will be a cool weekend with the wind
:02:10. > :02:12.picking up. Many parts of the South and south-west at the risk of severe
:02:13. > :02:16.gales, Sunday night into Monday. We will keep around that. That pales
:02:17. > :02:20.into insignificance compared with what is happening at the moment in
:02:21. > :02:23.the Caribbean with Hurricane Irma, now Puerto Rico and tomorrow,
:02:24. > :02:29.heading to the Dominican Republic and still with winds up to 185 mph
:02:30. > :02:31.and stronger gusts. As darkness full in this