you can see weather weatherford sits through east anglia towards the south—west but it will start toe away as we go through the morning we are going to see an improving picture, allowing for some sunshine to return in the afternoon strip a tale of two halves quite likely. we keep those showers going on a brisk westerly wind in the far north of scotland, with gusts close to 40 north of scotland, with gusts close to a0 or 50 mph, north of scotland, with gusts close to a0 or50 mph, so north of scotland, with gusts close to a0 or 50 mph, so some showers quite potent at times. temperatures generally across the country between seven and nine celsius. we have had high pressure controlling things recently. it's still with us in fact on friday, but some subtle differences to the weather story, as the wind direction swings round the more the westerly, different topping cross that high pressure and that westerly will drive in slightly milder air, temperature slightly above where they should be for the time of year. as we go into friday and saturday, we will see double figures returning the best

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