lucy hockings, bbc news, iceland. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich.louds gathering at times, the potential for thunderstorms. potential for thunderstorms. scattered for the time being, there might be more later in the week. might be more later in the week. northern ireland and scotland but much drier than it was yesterday. much drier than it was yesterday.

lucy hockings, bbc news, iceland. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. good afternoon. don't take the spring sunshine for granted over the next few days because there will be more scenes like this but also storm clouds gathering at times, the potential for thunderstorms. quite scattered for the time being, there might be more later in the week. today pretty cloudy for our weather watcher in the scottish highlands, the satellite victory shows generally a lot of cloud across northern ireland and scotland but much drier than it was yesterday. further south, long spells of warm sunshine, temperatures up to 22 or 23 degrees, but like yesterday that brings with it the threat of some afternoon thunderstorms. this is our high—resolution weather model, don't ta ke high—resolution weather model, don't take the exact positioning of the storms on this chart to literally, but it shows they are scattered and where they crop up there could be hail mixed in as well. this evening and overnight many of those showers will fade away, we will bring mist and murk towards parts of eastern sco

the bbc‘s lucy hockings went to find out more.ntry the land of fire and ice. but the ice land is called. they have it all. now the rest of the world is cottoning on. the rest is now exceed the national population by 7—1.|j was not prepared to how beautiful it is, breathtaking. at all the gorgeous. i understand why they come here because it's beautiful here. people come to the gulf to marvel at the natural beauty and of course to get the ultimate selfie shot here in iceland that it is hard to find a spot on your own. this is actually a quiet day but on a busy day in the high season up to 10,000 people descend on the site. alone on the atla ntic descend on the site. alone on the atlantic between europe and the us, iceland has become a dream stopover and it is attracting a new type of traveller, the shortstay selfie tourist. you are getting a lot of tourists that stop you briefly and they are not, the environment isn't their first priority they are not, the environment isn't theirfirst priority in they are not, the environment isn't

lucy hockings, bbc news, iceland.ute of silence at 2.30. at 10.31 tonight, bells will ring out across the city marking the moment the bomb went off a year ago today. we will have full coverage of those events on bbc news. the headlines are coming up on the bbc news channel. in a moment, we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. first, we leave you with for a look at the weather. sun is shining across manchester at the moment, as it is across many parts of england and wales. this is the scene at devon at the moment, a bit of cloud in the sky, but further north and east, we have got some more cloud. some rather misty and murky conditions across some of these north sea coast areas. in scotland, quite a bit of cloud this afternoon, some cloud for northern ireland, but drier and brighter than yesterday. temperatures will be higher in the west. for england and wales, some cloud, and the risk of some sharp showers with some thundery downpour in the south—east this afternoon. many temperatures up into the high teens and low 20s,