After early mist, mainly in the northeast, this morning will start dry, sunny and breezy for many. However, heavy, thundery and blustery showers will move north-eastwards from south Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.

Monday 17 October—Sunday 23 October
Weather changing but only slowly

It does look as though high pressure will have less of an influence on our weather during next week. A slow moving area of low pressure will bring outbreaks of rain across the country during the early part of the week, heavy at times, especially in the south and east although not amounting to much across the northwest. Easterly winds will be quite strong with temperatures close to normal for the second half of October. High pressure will not have moved too far away and may briefly return to give a more settled interlude towards the end of the week and into the weekend. This will bring drier, brighter conditions with lighter winds. However clearer skies at nights are likely to lead to colder nights with a touch of frost.