roger harrabin, bbc news. time for a look at the weather — here's matt taylor. good afternoon.g lovely in the sunshine in cornwall this afternoon, but temperatures already 21 degrees in the midlands and for all of us, the rest of the week is set to get potentially warmer and more humid. if you are after rain for the garden, some essential energy scenarios will be disappointed, or glad, depending on your point of view. nothing expected. and eastern areas, rain will come and go in the west, western scotland and northern ireland the hottest. —— the wettest. in northern ireland, after a bit of a cloudy day so far, there will be brighter breaks to the east through this afternoon. sunshine to the east of scotland lifting temperatures to 2122, widely blue skies across the east of wales and eastern england, temperatures 22 to 25. this evening will be fine, partly clear skies across wales, england and eastern scotland, western scotland to northern ireland, clouds thickening up northern ireland, clouds thickening up and raining turning heavier tomorrow morning, but the temperatures for t