was more of an art than a science, and stagg was there but drawing heavily on our met office at dunstableont, and that is what we have today in scotland and northern ireland. has become further south, it is breezy along the south—west coast. we have a few showers dotted around, for example, north—west wales. they will tend to ease, but through the day, as temperatures rise, we could see a few more showers develop. there could be heavy and thundery, but they are showers, so not all of us will see them. meanwhile the rain will start to drift to the north—west of scotla nd to drift to the north—west of scotland in the north—west of northern ireland. temperatures ranging from ten to 20 in any sunshine in the south and south—east. later in the day what you will find is the cloud will start to build across the south—east, that is ahead of the next area of low pressure coming our way. through the course of the evening and overnight it tends to scoot up the north sea, probably not coming too far inland. if it does, it will produce some patchy rain in east anglia, yorkshire and lincolnshire, for e