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. Good evening. It's the time of week when we turn our attention to

international holiday weather, so we are not seeing some sunshine in the

UK, where else would we find it? It's been particularly nasty across

Iberia, Italy, the Balkans, and that's all spreading its way across

into the used in parts of Europe, so the Black Sea resorts, through

Turkey and Greece, with warnings for potent thunderstorms with lightning

and hailstorms as well. In contrast, it is a little quieter

through Saturday across Italy and the Balkans, but we are picking up

more showers and thunderstorms once again across Iberia, particularly

the southern half of Portugal and Spain as well, and that shower risk

is likely to continue throughout the weekend, but for Naples, fine and

dry, relatively warm, temperatures into the midtwenties. Into France,

along with the UK, sitting under the area of high pressure, but all the

time at risk of pulling some of those showers up, particularly later

in the weekend and early next week. Saturday is looking fine and

relatively quiet with low cloud, mist and fog, and when that breaks,

temperatures will rise nicely. We will need to keep an eye out on

Sunday for those storms from Iberia northwards across other western

parts of Europe. Storms, or really rather persistent, heavy rain,

across parts of central and western USA, dampening down some of the

wildfires but only touching the far north of California as they had

across the Rockies and further eastwards into Saturday. Ahead of

that, fine and dry towards the great Lakes, New York and Washington,

staying fine and dry for the weekend, but the shower risk is

still with us further south. For Atlanta and Miami, you may have seen

those showers in Mexico, it's been particularly unsettled. It will be

cooler behind that weather system in Seattle but still hot and dry for

LA, so no sign of much-needed prolonged rains. Plenty of prolonged

rains across north-eastern India with flash flooding, quite severe

weather. As it does for the Western Ghats, which can be a popular

destination, so at the moment the showery rains and monsoon is going

towards goal and Mumbai, but dry towards the north at the moment.

Keeping an eye on this tropical storm which may brush by Japan, may

be influencing the weather in Tokyo, for example, with strong winds and

rough conditions out at sea and heavy rains as well. We need to keep

an eye out because we've had a few storms across Japan recently. In

contrast, fine unsettled across many parts of Australia at the moment

although some heavy rain moving towards New Zealand, rounding the

Australian bike, bringing a drop in temperatures with showers and

thunderstorms and some unsettled weather the Tasmania as well. In the

UK, the weekend is looking quite settled along with the rest of

north-west Europe. Some sunshine and warmth but some fog. Misty, low

cloud and this weak weather fronts across southern parts of the UK on

Friday will bring cloudy conditions, but after a wet and windy night

after some parts of Scotland, it looks much drier and brighter

through the day. Some drizzly showers across the south-west into

the afternoon but it is warm air, so given some sunshine, 19-21 on the

cards across the southern UK. Further north, more sunshine than

during the day on Thursday, but not as warm because of the winds, the

first autumnal gales blowing across Scotland, persisting into the first

part of Friday, bringing hefty showers and a chill in the wind

across the Highlands and the Scottish islands. Come Saturday, a

similar setup with the winds easing in the north, but whether France

will progress towards north-western Scotland and Northern Ireland and,

in the south, stubborn fog. Some fog on Sunday morning but bringing in a

southerly