and it was fundamental to highland park's success.he level we're on originally when this was installed was street-level. everything below was out of sight. also, the original floor went up to the engine. this is kind of raised. originally, it sat on the ground, very firm, very solid looking. this is one of the nine engines generating electricity for the highland park plant for moving centerlines and all machines being deployed there. it's a hybrid engine. this is a steam engine, compound steam engine, of our system established in the 19th century. side is internal combustion, two considerable engine again. this is an internal combustion engine. this is running very, very hot, like an engine in your car. it's got an elaborate cooling system. pistons are cool, swinging link you can see there. talk about how these two engines are integrated. one of the things they were trying to do, in addition to generate electricity, maximize efficiency. henry ford, who grew up in a farm, didn't care for farm animals, for farm work, he couldn't wait to

it was fundamental to highland park's success. the level we are on originally when this engine was installed was street-level. everything below was quite out of sight. the original floor went all the way to the engine. this looks a little skeletal. this is kind of raised, but initially it was very firm, solid looking. this is one of the nine engines that was eventually generating electricity for the highland park plant for all the machinery that was being deployed. it is a hybrid engine. this side is a steam engine, compound steam engine. a valve system established in the mid-19th century. it has a more advanced form of valves there. this side on the other hand is internal combustion. two cylinder engine again. this is using coal gas. this is an internal combustion engine. this is running very hot, like an engine in your car, so it has a very elaborate cooling system. even the piston rods are cooled. there is a swinging link you can see. that offers us to talk about how the two engines are integrated. one of the things they were t

they made most of the model t's in highland park north of the museum. they were turning out thousands, millions of cars during that decade. there was a point, 1915, 1920 when half of the automobiles on the roads of the united states were made by the ford motor company and highland park. by the time henry ford was making model t's, a lot of other companies were starting up. they decided this was a great idea. some of them were companies not necessarily involved initially in automobile manufacturing. the folks who ran the detroit news decided to start their own company. the guys who had the biggest music store and piano manufacturer in detroit decided to start an automobile company. the hudson company, which was a, basically detroit's large department store, think macy's or marshall fields, the hudson company decided to start its own auto manufacturer. and hudson motors, for many years, was a hardcharging leader of the automobile business in detroit. in 1915, detroit had 42 manufacturing companies making automobiles and another 70-some making parts. we al

it was fundamental to highland park's success.he level we are on originally when this engine was installed in highland park was street-level. everything below was quite out of sight. the original floor went all the way to the engine. this looks skeletal and is kind of raised, but initially it was very firm, solid looking. this is one of the nine engines that was eventually generating electricity for the highland park plant for all the machinery that was being deployed. it is a hybrid engine. this site is a steam engine, compound steam engine. a valve system established in the mid-19th century. this side on the other hand is internal combustion. two cylinder engine again. this is using coal gas. this is an internal combustion engine. this is running very hot, like an engine in your car, so it has a very elaborate cooling system. even the piston rods are cooled. a swinging link you can see here. that offers us to talk about how the two engines are integrated. one of the things they were trying to do, in addition to generating electr

dear member the story of bill of the 51st highlanders? -- do you remember the story of the bill of the 51st highlanders? some were pinned down in this point, they heard bagpipes. bagpipesbill with his ignoring reinforcements and ignoring the smack of bullets in the ground around him. lord love it was with him -- l ovett was with him, who announced, sorry, i was a few minutes late." as if he had just been delayed by a traffic jam, when he had been fighting on sward beach -- sword beach. unsurpassed courage of the canadians, who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. they knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. once they hit juno beach, they never looked back. all of these men were part of a with names honor, that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore. rifles,l winnipeg poland's 24th lancers, the royal scott fusiliers, the screaming eagles, england's armored divisions, the forces of free friends, the coast guard's -- free france, the coast guard's matchbox fleet, and you, the american rangers.

by highlands, we could see 20 degrees.ing wind and rain to the north. further south, by we get —— by the time we get to saturday, some warmer spells. it looks thoroughly wet for some parts of england and northern ireland with those showers. some sales in the south and breezy. so it won't feel like 18 or 19 that we made see but at least it will be gradually drying up. sunday looks like the winds will ease, but still plenty of showers around, it does at the moment look ok drier, slightly warmer day of the weekend. as ever, there is more on the website. good morning. welcome to breakfast, from normandy, at the start of a day of events marking the 75th anniversay of the d—day landings. on these beaches on 6june 1944, tens of thousands of allied troops began their invasion of nazi—occupied europe. ceremonies marking the key events began shortly after midnight. this was the scene at pegasus bridge. after a massive send—off in portsmouth, hundreds of normandy veterans have sailed to france to take part

and further north in the highlands of scotland, we have skies like this in the highlands. weather this weekend is moving to east wales and england, where we could see temperatures up to 30 full celsius but that heat will ebb away for the second half of the weekend. still warm, but not as warm, so changes this weekend. let's take a look at the rest of the weather. through the rest of the afternoon, the hottest weather we have seen so far this year the hottest weather we have seen so farthis year in the hottest weather we have seen so far this year in both wales and scotla nd far this year in both wales and scotland and after those high temperatures we will continue to see very warm conditions as we head through the rest of this afternoon into the evening. after such a warm day, overnight, temperatures will be slow to full back so it will be a warm and uncomfortable night for sleeping. this is 11pm, temperatures 22 celsius in cardiff, high teens across northern ireland and wales and into parts of scotland as well. looking at the weather picture, on saturday, temperatures coo

what a hot weekend, mid 40s in europe, high 30s in the highlands of scotland!ar. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it mis all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, torcuil and claire. goodbye. good evening, i'm lizzie greenwood—hughes with your latest sports news. and there were celebrations for the thousands of england fans in northern france tonight, after england beat norway to reach the semi—finals of the world cup. it was a comfortable victory as well, 3—0 the final score. katie gornall reports from le havre. just across the channel, a home not farfrom home. this is england's second world cup game in le havre, but this one brings the nerves of a knockout. some of those nerves were settled afterjust two minutes. ellen white usually finishes these in her sleep. now england hit top gear. this was a display of brilliant efficiency, engineered by nikita parris and finis

dies after being struck by lightning while walking on a mountain near ben nevis in the scottish highlandsundreds of thousands take to the streets of hong kong to protest against a planned law about extradition to china. and i'm here in nice where injust a few hours‘ time, and i‘m here in nice where injust a few hours‘ time, england will take on scotland in their first women‘s world cup match. and coming up on bbc news, alicia mccarthy looks back at recent events in westminster, in the week in parliament. that‘s at half—past two. good afternoon. the conservative leadership candidate michael gove has admitted he commited a criminal offence when he took cocaine on several occasions. speaking for the first time about his use of the class a drug, he said he had a "profound sense of regret" about it. he used cocaine when working as a journalist 20 years ago. here‘s our political correspondent susana mendonca. these aren‘t the headlines that michael gove would have been hoping for this weekend as he embarked on his campaign for the leadership. yes, it was a crime, it was a mistake, andi yes, it

dies after being struck by lightning while walking on a mountain near ben nevis in the scottish highlandsundreds of thousands take to the streets of hong kong to protest against a planned law about extradition to china. we are in the stadium in nice where injust under two we are in the stadium in nice where in just under two hours, we are in the stadium in nice where injust under two hours, england will take on scotland in the women's world cup. and coming up on bbc news, a look back at some of this week's stories covered by the victoria derbyshire programme — that's in half an hour. good afternoon. the conservative leadership candidate michael gove has admitted he commited a criminal offence when he took cocaine on several occasions. speaking for the first time about his use of the class a drug he said he had a "profound sense of regret" about it. he used cocaine when working as a journalist 20 years ago. here's our political correspondent susana mendonca. these weren't the headlines michael gove would have been hoping for this weekend as he embarked on setting out his pitch for the tory

temperatures will be responding. 30 celsius in the highlands, asi responding. 30 celsius in the highlandsing up. across eastern parts that will be sunshine. a hot and humid day for many of us. we have heat building across europe. temperatures today, even into the weekend, up into the 40s across parts of france and in the uk we will see the highest temperature in the east, about 34 celsius. in the west it will be slightly fresher with cloud across scotland, northern ireland. further south east for much of england and wales, it will be sunny and that is where you will find the highest temperatures. a bit fresher in the western parts, 20 to 22 celsius. we have a cold front moving eastwards. as it pushes east and the wind comes round to a westerly direction, on sunday it will feel much fresher. if you are not a fan of the high temperatures sunday will be more comfortable. quite a bit of cloud and showers in the west. temperatures will be around 19 to 24 celsius. a 10 degrees drop in temperatures in the south—east on saturday and we keep the temperatures into next week. 6oodbye. hello, it's fr

hours, there could still be a bit of rain to come especially across western areas of scotland, the highlands and the western isles but it's a largely dry picture and although it was a very warm start to the night, if you are heading outside over the next few hours, these are the kinds of temperatures you are more likely to encounter, only around 15, 16 degrees celsius. sunday is going to be a much fresher kind of day with plenty of sunshine around. there will be some thick cloud in the north—west and that will be bringing outbreaks of rain so some wet weather here and along with that, the cool winds coming in from the sea will keep temperatures pretty low, really, from the time of year across the very far north of scotland and that's why there are a few showers for northern ireland, a few for the north—west of both england and wales, the driest weather across southern and eastern areas. for many of us, temperatures are actually pretty good for the time of year. 20 in aberdeen, quite warm. 2a, 25 for south—east england but 1a for shetland and 12 in lerwick, that's not particularly special for

on this dusty hillside in guatemala's western highlands francisco lay on soft prepares the fields for planting a decade ago he could grow enough corn to feed his family for most of the year but these days his harvests are getting smaller and smaller francisco says climate change is to blame is that input on the weather shouldn't be like this it used to rain in the middle of april but now the rain doesn't arrive until the end of may or the beginning of june we always wait until it's rained before we plant our corn if it doesn't rain and we don't plant because the seeds won't grow average daytime temperatures in guatemala have risen over the past decade while crop damage and frosts are more common and when it does rain it often pours for days washing the topsoil away what amala already has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the western hemisphere. and in the western highlands indigenous subsistence farmers make up half the population when crops here fail people leave who wants to follow his uncles to the united states the 18 year old says that there's no future for young people i

on friday any showers tend to be confined to parts of the northern isles and highlands of scotland, awaym that largely dry with some spells of sunshine coming through. and temperatures between 16 for northern areas, and 21 towards the south—east. through the weekend for most of us and dry weather is here to stay with more sunshine and getting warmer with temperatures reaching 2a degrees around the london area and feeling a bit more humid across the south of england and southern parts of wales. during sunday night another area of low pressure comes in from the atlantic which will threaten some rain late on sunday and sunday night across western areas. but we could see at least a couple of days of dry weather finally this summer. (a reminder of our main story this lunchtime for men are to be charged of the shooting down of a malaysian airliner nearly four years ago, almost 300 people died. that is all from the bbc news at 0ne almost 300 people died. that is all from the bbc news at one and we joined the bbc news teams where you are. have a good afternoon. hello. you're watching bbc news. i

on this dusty hillside in guatemala's western highlands francisco prepares a field for planting a decade ago he could grow enough corn to feed his family for most of the year but these days his harvests are getting smaller and smaller francisco says climate change is to blame is that the weather shouldn't be like this it used to rain in the middle of april but now the rain doesn't arrive until the end of may or the beginning of june we always wait until it's rain before we plant our corn if it doesn't rain and we don't plant because the seeds won't grow average daytime temperatures in guatemala have risen over the past decade while crop damage and frosts are more common and when it does rain it often pours for days washing the topsoil away. already has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the western hemisphere and in the western highlands indigenous subsistence farmers make up half the population when crops here fail people leave who wants to follow his uncle's to the united states the 18 year old says that there is no future for young people in his village the only people he sees

it is on the rise here and the highlands have been identified as a hotspot for infections.his is one of the hotspots, and a good place then to speak to a gp who regularly sees patients with the disease. lyme disease is an illness caused by a bacteria — a barilla bacteria — that is transmitted by ticks. that bacteria can be transmitted to the humans and cause a whole variety of different diseases. so around about the focus of the tick bite, over about a week after the original tick bite, a rash develops. that is the first and obvious sign that somebody has picked up an affected tick. and if the bacteria goes deeper into the body, it can cause really quite significant illness and affect primarily from the nervous system, so can start causing paralysis, it can affect the joints. when it gets to this stage, again, antibiotics certainly can get rid of the bacteria, but in a percentage of people, they're left with debilitating symptoms for quite some time. it is hard to believe that a tiny tick can cause such serious health problems. and it turns out there are far more of them ar

scotla nd thunder possible in highland scotland with the arrival of the rental stop the final forestayt couple of days, messy temperatures as high as 21 celsius and sunny spells developing again in south—eastern good. belfast just 12 degrees. on a cool wet day. this area of rain extends further northwards as we go through tuesday night and into wednesday. it rotates around scotland and northern ireland and parts of northern england, the rest of england and wales are turning drier and clearer. and these other starting temperatures on wednesday. so we still have a bit of rain out there on wednesday morning, asa rain out there on wednesday morning, as a day goes on, it will become confined mostly to northern scotland, elsewhere sunny spells to be had but if you show is developing. it could be heavy, possibly thundery, slow—moving and fairly light winds are therefore stop temperatures are just out if not a bit below average for the time of year. maybe a bit of rain reaching parts of eastern england is the work the system and the north sea spill some brain northwards into thursday. more sig

a few isolated and thundery showers across the highlands of scotland.land staying dry. turning very humid in the south and as humidity increases, the threat of thunderstorms increases. particularly across parts of wales, the midlands and northern england. we could see up to 50 millimetres in one 01’ we could see up to 50 millimetres in one or two spots, that could cause some flash flooding in places, certainly into the early hours of monday and as we creep into monday, eastern scotland could see some heavy and persistent rain. still the chance of thunder. rather cold easterly winds which will continue to blow that rained in. elsewhere, isolated showers for northern ireland, england and wales. the morning cloud when it breaks up, it will feel increasingly humid with temperatures in the mid to upper 20s, still in the teens in some parts of scotland. tuesday, the rain across northern scotland but more thundery samples could return. pinpointing where they could become a bit uncertain but parts of england, some torrential storms possible and it gets even hot

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we have the interesting contrast, we could be approaching 30 celsius in the northwest highlands and justee the highest temperatures tomorrow but not as high as those in europe where it is likely we will see the heatwave breaking. 0ur strongest spell temperature —wise looks set to be on saturday but then it breaks as well but it is breaking by saturday across the west with the threat of thunderstorms whilst further east after a chilly day for the east coast on friday, temperatures leap up several degrees and we could be approaching 33 or 34 celsius in the south and east so a very different day and a very different feeling day on saturday. the cold weather front will eventually bring the breakdown of heat across the uk but not across parts of the lowlands, france and iberia. the heat maintains here but for ourselves it is back to the ‘20s on sunday, average for the time of year with the risk of showers in the north. there is more on the website. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 2: europe bakes as temperatures rise to levels normally seen in the middle east.

in the western highlands we could see temperatures reaching nearly 30 celsius.ing into the isles of scilly and cornwall in the afternoon and that will continue into the overnight period. more cloud into northern ireland and western scotland and more cloud for the eastern coasts but it will be a close night, vertically for the southern half of the uk and in some spots, temperatures not dipping much lower than 16 celsius. full saturday, the hot and humid conditions continue, but this time, the heat really focused on the eastern half of the uk. this is the picture across europe. you can see central and western areas continuing to see those temperatures exceed 40 celsius throughout this weekend. we are going to see those supercharged ties but we will see temperatures get a significant boost. that is down towards the far south—east, where we could see temperatures reach highs of 34 celsius. more cloud for northern ireland and western scotland and here temperatures will be pegged back and one or two showers could work their way in but it will feel humid, critically do

the highlands and islands of scotla nd rain.he end of the day. the breeze picks up, lighter winds in the south. much more sunshine and it will feel even warmer. two bridges back up into the mid— 20s. mid teens across northern scott —— northern ireland and scotland. we don't know either way, it looks like much of england and wales, variable amounts of cloud and rain at times in scotla nd of cloud and rain at times in scotland and may be northern ireland and later parts of northern england. what will happen towards the weekend? the european model has the european —— northerly winds coming in. high—pressure is building in from the west and temperatures started to rise by the end of the weekend with most under sunny conditions. another option is that the high—pressure holds on a bit more. this is the american model. keep the high—pressure with us on saturday and the low has got as much an influence was up maybe friday could be dry and it keeps the high—pressure throughout the weekend. maybe starting to draw on slightly hotter air as

and in the western highlands indigenous subsistence farmers make up half the population when crops here fail people leave who wants to follow his uncles to the united states the 18 year old says that there is no future for young people in his village the only people he sees getting ahead have left to work abroad and send money back. i didn't. i want to make something out of my life to be able to follow my dreams i want to get a good education find a job and help my family here it's a struggle to save even a tiny bit of money as guatemala's dry cord or continues to expand more farming families are set to struggle of all is one of the 10 countries in the world most impacted by climate change and while people leave the country for many different reasons at the root you often find climate change that makes adapting to and mitigating the changing weather patterns a priority. knows how far a little help can go he built this drip irrigation system as part of a u.s. funded project focused on cropped up versification water and soil conservation and reforestation the goal to create a stable incom

we could be pushing towards 30 in the western highlands but not further east because the sun has to workear, no surprise, as high as it gets, the sun in the sky, so high as it gets, the sun in the sky, so very strong and given we've got that brisk in the south and gusty wind, not as strong as thursday but masking the effect of the sun, feeling fresher than you'd expect, those temperatures, so be aware. a contrast from the east coast of scotla nd contrast from the east coast of scotland through the west, 15 —— 16, to the high 20s in the highlands because of the low

of scotla nd close to 20 celsius in the highlands of scotland letter.urning to showers on sunday, showers becoming more prolific week. see you soon. this is beyond 100 days. i'm katty kay with christian fraser in portsmouth. the queen and donald trump have been in the city, commemorating the 75th anniversary of d—day. they were joined there by other heads of state and government, to honour the troops who risked and sacrificed their lives in the d—day landings. it is with humility and pleasure, on behalf of the entire country, indeed, the whole free world, that i say to you all — thank you. some of those veterans are currently making their way across the channel on a specially comissioned ship, retracing their journey across the english channel, as part of the commemorations. president trump moves onto ireland — he says brexit could be very, very good for the country. ..it will all work out very well. also for you, with your wall, your border. i mean, we have a border situation in the united states, and you have one over here. plus, we'll be speaking to

do you remember the story of the bill millen of the 51st highlanders? 40 years ago today, british troops were pinned down near a bridge, suddenly they heard the sound of bagpipes. some thought they were dreaming. they weren't. they looked up and saw bill millen with his bagpipes leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of bullets in the ground around him. lord lovett was with him. he calmly announced when he got "sorry, i was a few minutes late." as if he had just been delayed by a traffic jam, when he had come from the bloody fighting on sword beach, which he and his men had just taken. there was the impossible courage of the poles, and the unsurpassed courage of the canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. they knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. once they hit juno beach, they never looked back. all of these men were part of a rollcall of honor, with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore. the royal winnipeg rifles, poland's 24th lancers, the royal scott fusiliers, the s

on this dusty hillside in guatemala's western highlands francisco lay on soft prepares the fields for planting a decade ago he could grow enough corn to feed his family for most of the year but these days his harvests are getting smaller and smaller francisco says climate change is to blame is that input on the weather shouldn't be like this it used to rain in the middle of april but now the rain doesn't arrive until the end of may or the beginning of june we always wait until it's rained before we plant our corn if it doesn't rain and we don't plant because the seeds won't grow average daytime temperatures in guatemala have risen over the past decade while crop damage and frosts are more common and when it does rain it often pours for days washing the topsoil away what amala already has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the western hemisphere. and in the western highlands indigenous subsistence farmers make up half the population when crops here fail people leave who wants to follow his uncles to the united states the 18 year old says that there is no future for young people

showers in the highlands and islands with the odd rumble of thunder but nowhere near as severe as todayme sunshine in between those showers and many southern and eastern areas will stay dry for the bulk if not all day long. still strong sunshine overhead and it will still feel quite pleasant at the low to mid 20s. in the near continent germany could see the return to some heat tomorrow with the potential for some more record—breaking temperatures there. it will cool off into monday. for us we will start to drag our air from scotland and a more northerly direction. a few showers around in the north with high pressure in the south for most of next week, mostly dry and sunny spells and looking good for the start of wimbledon. this is bbc news. the headlines... the us and china agree to resume talks to ease their trade war — and speaking at the g20 summit in osaka president trump says companies will be able to trade with huawei. we are talking about equipment where there is no great national emergency problem with that, but the us companies can sell their equipment. donald trump visits sout

we reached 30 celsius in the highlands of scotland, making it the uk's warmest day of the year so itest day of the year so far, but we are expecting to exceed that on saturday. we are drawing up this heat and humidity from the sahara. it has brought the heatwave across central and western parts of europe and on friday france recorded its highest ever temperature. we have got fresher conditions waiting in the winds but we will not feel the effects of that until a little bit later on in the weekend. for the rest of tonight, we have got that cloud down towards cornwall and south—west wales, more cloud for the western isles of scotland, where we could see an isolated shower, and more cloud down the east coast, but otherwise dry, clear skies and muggy. some spots towards the south—west will see temperatures drop much lower than 16 celsius. through saturday, the heat and humidity continues, except it tra nsfers to and humidity continues, except it transfers to the eastern half of the uk. we will have more cloud out towards the west and as of the day goes on, we will see a few showers devel

temperatures tomorrow, 25—27 across the west, perhaps pushing 30 in the highlands, just around abouta brief hot spell for us in the uk. we will have more later. this is bbc news. the headlines... ninety labour mps and peers call onjeremy corbyn to overturn the decision to allow his ally — chris williamson — back into the party following an anti—semitism row. a jury hears that the man accused of stabbing lee pomeroy to death held a phone to his face and said "i'm going to kill this man." the two contenders to be the next tory leader and next prime minister clash over their policies — ahead of more hustings this evening. food delivery firm uber eats tightens up the way restaurants europe is in the grip of the heatwave. we are talking a bit about the weather as across to france. we are just two hours away for the quarterfinal of the world cup. head coach phil neville has said the players that relax, happy and ready to end. let usjoinjane players that relax, happy and ready to end. let us joinjane who has been there at the team today. we have been hearing all day about the temperatures a

develops across southwest england and in the afternoon through prince of wales a nice shower across the highlands will stay dry, still with sunny spells in the north and east in temperatures mid—teens in scotland and northern ireland and 20s in the southeast corner and already starting to feel much more muggy. that more humid air could result in severe storms as we finish tomorrow evening into tomorrow night. wells from the been lifted to northern england resources to begin with and will track north. rainfall amounts can vary quite widely, but to the worst of those and there's a risk of some flooding may be some travel descriptions to ta ke may be some travel descriptions to take us in a monday. if you start the rush hour some of the heaviest rain will be easter in scotland. they may just rain will be easter in scotland. they mayjust ease off a little bit further north but as the morning crowd elsewhere breaks up such a come through in temperatures left it's past the midlands and the england to see another bout of severe storms drifting into southern parts of scotland. some just left a bit in sco

and that rumble of thunder possible in the showers in highland scotland, ahead of the arrival of thethere. it's not as windy as it's been over the past couple of days. may see temperatures as high as 21 celsius in sunny spells developing again in south—east england. but look at that — belfast just 12 degrees, on a cool, wet day. so this area of rain extends further northwards as we go through tuesday night and into wednesday. just rotates around, though, scotland, northern ireland and parts of northern england, whereas the rest of england and wales are turning drier and clearer at this stage, and these are the starting temperatures on wednesday. so we still have a bit of rain out there on wednesday morning. now, as the day goes on, it will become confined mostly to northern scotland. elsewhere, there'll be some sunny spells to be had, but there'll be a few showers developing. and catch one, it could be heavy, possibly thundery, slow—moving too, in fairly light winds out there, and temperatures are just at if not a bit below average for the time of year. maybe a bit of rain reaching p

but not for the western highlands but not for the release because the sun is to work its magic and getky and will be strong, very strong indeed and given that we have the brisk wind not the strongest thursday, but still masking the effect of that sun might feel fresher the you normally expect this temperatures. so do be aware if you're out and about. 15 or 16 in the high 20s in the highlands, because of the onshore breeze which will retreat in friday night but still as we pick up more cloud from the west and after that intense heat changes afoot. but as he pick up more cloud, we also increase the humidity that will start to feel more uncomfortable for sleeping. the peak of the heaves are in the uk comes on saturday where as we can see the intense red herejust pushing and nudging across the channel into the southeast of england. we could see 34 degrees but we are already breaking down that he'd further west with showers and even some thunderstorms as well, still be quite a contrast after the high 20s on friday where we are looking at the low 20s and in step start to pick up the temperat

half of the uk and it is here that we saw our highest temperatures, we reached 30 celsius in the highlandsng it the uk's warmest day of the year so it the uk's warmest day of the year so far, but we are expected to exceed that on saturday. we are drying up this heat and humidity from the sahara, it has brought the heat wave across western parts of europe and are friday, france recorded its highest ever temperature and we have got fresher conditions waiting in the wings, but we will not feel the effects of that until a little bit later on in the weekend. for the rest of the day, towards cornwall and southwest wales, more cloud for the western isles we could see some isolated showers and more cloud down on the east, but otherwise dry, clear skies and muggy some spots in the southwest where it drops. 0n saturday, the heat in the humidity continues except the transfers to the eastern half of the uk. we will have more cloud out towards the west and as the day goes on, we will see showers developing for north wales and northern england and scotland, which is heavy and potentially thundering. tha

wet weather starts the day in highland scotland, gradually moving eastwards with time.perhaps a little more humid as well across the south of wales and southern parts of england. we may start to see some showers break out late in the day. those showers, we already have met office warning for these, late on tuesday through tuesday night and into wednesday, the amount of rain that we get will vary a lot from place to place. even that the ground is completely saturated, where we do get the heavy downpours coming through we could see some surface water flooding building very quickly. there is a risk of some disruption to road and rail. the exact position of the thundery downpours are still open to doubt, a large spread of east—west movement but it mostly looks like england at risk and perhaps a little rain into eastern parts of wales. through wednesday also some heavy showers again through northern ireland and scotland bringing unsettled weather but the weather has not been as wet across this part of the uk as other areas so hopefully that rain will not be impactful. welcom