Heavy rain across the UK has brought flood alerts but will it be drier and brighter for the Bank Holiday weekend?
Heavy rain on Wednesday brought two times the monthly rain for May in just 24 hours across Cumbria on Wednesday. Rain will continue across northern Britain on Thursday but Friday should bring a drier and brighter day for all.
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00:00 Hello there. It's certainly been very wet across the UK, with more than two times May's
00:11 rainfall falling in just 24 hours across Cumbria on Wednesday. This rain will continue across
00:17 northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Thursday. Heavy at times for southern and
00:21 central Scotland, but for most it should turn increasingly light and patchy. Very windy
00:27 as well across the north-west, and this wind will wrap around western Scotland and down
00:30 into the Irish Sea, so it will bring a fairly blustery and breezy day for western Scotland,
00:36 northern Ireland, north-west England and north Wales. Drier and brighter though for many
00:41 of us on Friday, with the best of the sunshine for south-east England. Fairly cloudy though
00:46 elsewhere, with a few showers, mostly for Scotland and northern Ireland, but some sunny
00:50 spells should break through later in the day for many of us. Bright on Saturday morning
00:55 with some sunny spells, a few showers here and there, mostly in the north and east, and
01:00 cloud cover will begin to thicken from the west during the afternoon, bringing some rain
01:04 to south-west England during the evening. On Sunday it will be a fairly unsettled day,
01:09 with a widespread threat of showers. Some of these heavy too, bringing rumbles of thunder,
01:14 but there will also be some sunny intervals between these showers. And as we look ahead
01:18 into bank holiday Monday, we'll see another day of sunny spells and scattered showers.
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