will gompertz, bbc news, margate. much more on all the news on the bbc website.ing. well, last week's high pressure and settled autumn sunshine a distant memory. this week, it's been very different, hasn't it? on monday, we saw some heavy rain, some areas seeing a months worth of rain injust a 24—hour period. through the middle part of the week, it's quietened down a little. sunny spells and scattered showers. but there's more wet and windy weather to come through this weekend. here it is sitting out in the atlantic, and it's going to continue to push its way across the seas towards us for the second half of the weekend. ahead of it, circulating around an area of low pressure, a scattering of showers. some of those quite heavy, possibly thundery, and some of them, as we go through the day today, merging together for longer spells of rain. blustery winds, particularly through the south—west, driving those showers inland. there'll be some heavy ones through wales, north—west england, and northern ireland as well. the best of the driest, sunniest lot perhaps reserve