Issued: 0630hrs Friday 26 April 2024
Duty forecaster: John

Saturday 27 April(br> Overnight ground and air frost for Scotland and northern England will clear by mid-morning to give a dry and sunny start 0 to 2C early 5C mid-morning. Sunshine and showers through the morning across Scotland, frequent across Western Isles, Antrim to Galloway. Generally dry for Fife to Borders with sunshine. Northumberland dry with sunshine though cloud increasing thruogh the morning. Remainder of England and Wales remaining generally cloudy, rain at first from Devon to Gwent and Wiltshire, rain extending through to Cambridgeshire, rain prolonged and heavy at times. Cloudy with patchy outbreaks of rain central Wales, across midlands to Lincolnshire, cool where cloud and rain persists 6 to 8C. Mainly dry with sunshine though rather cloudy at times for Cheshire to Cumbria 10 to 12C during the afternoon. Showers continuing though becoming coastal for western Scotland through the evening with a dry night to follow with ground and air frost. Dry for northern England with patchy air and ground frost overnight. Remaining cloudy midlands southwards with outbreaks of rain slow to clear.
Sunday 28 April
Cloudy start with rain extending from Cornwall to Hampshire, into Glamorgan and Powys, all of midlands including Cheshire to Yorkshire, prolonged and often heavy through the morning,6 to 8C, rain easing during the afternoon from the southwest with sunshine and showers following with showers becoming widesread Hampshire to Norfolk during the afternoon,12 to 14C with sunshine. Remaining generally cloudy for most of England and Wales with rain lingering though Yorkshire, remaining cool 8 to 10C. Dry with sunshine and patch cloudy for Argyll to Highland, Ayrshire to Fife, 8 to 10C generally though 12 to 14C Argyll and Ayrshire. Staying mainly dry across Scotland during the evening though becoming cloudy overnight into the west. England and Wales remainig rain across Yorkshire to Northumberand during the evening clearing with a mainly dry night to follow