tomas saraceno, i thank you forjoining me. a pleasure. thank you. it's great to have you in the studio. it has been a very wetjuly so far. some spots, particularly towards the north and west and across central southern england, have already seen 1.5 times thejuly average of rainfall and we are only halfway through the month. there is a lot more month to go and a lot more rainfall, too, especially over the next couple of days. this is the rainfall accumulation chart. you can see some western areas seeing up to 50mm more for the next few days, adding onto those already very high rainfall totals. things will stay unsettled. that deep area of low pressure which gave us the storms over the weekend, moving across scandinavia, meaning lightening winds for many on monday but still a key north—westerly blowing over much of scotland. cloudy for much of scotland. a few showers developing here and there. there will be a good scattering of showers across england, wales and northern ireland. some sunny spells in between, perhaps staying lar

tomas saraceno, i thank you forjoining me.it was a pleasure. thank you. it's great to have you in the studio. hello, thanks forjoining me. let's see what's happening on the weather front over the next ten days, and not an awful lot of change in the forecast. in fact, so far, july has been relatively cool compared tojune. it's certainly been a lot cooler right across the uk, and the schematic shows what's been happening — the jet stream to the south of us has allowed cooler air to spread in from the north, bouts of rain in places. in fact, some parts of the country have seen more than a month's worth of rainfall so far, whereas across sunny southern europe here, folks are enduring an intense heatwave, and that's how it's going to stay for the foreseeable future. let's focus on that heatwave, because the temperatures here will be pretty extreme. i think the peak will be around about tuesday. at least across the central mediterranean, 46 celsius is certainly not impossible, and the peak of that heatwave will be moving eastwards a