Away, with some of us as early as this evening and overnight. Elsewhere, apart from the southampton area, more showers this afternoon, as if that were needed. Storm francis. Temperature is a little bit back and where we were at the weekend, so 21 as a high this afternoon, maybe 22 in the heart of london. Back to francis. We keep dropping the isobars in the middle of this deepening storm, putting a bigger squeeze on the isobars, which is why the met office have issued the warnings they have, because they are concerned about the intensity of the rain and also the strength of the rain and also the strength of the wind. The yellows and greens indicate where we expect the heaviest rain, gradually easing off, though scotland is again in for a chilly night ahead of the wind and rain associated with francis. The rain associated with francis. The rain sticks right across scotland then northern ireland, and returns back to the north west of england later in the rain. Here are the gusts of wind.
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Exactly, it was just from a couple of packets of seeds in my cupboards that i wasnt going to use this year. Alison freeman, bbc news, northumberland. Time for a look at the weather. Heres stav da naos. Thank you, good afternoon. It is a brightening up afternoon for many. We have low pressure sweeping into the north of the uk, that will increase the breeze across the uk and also bring plenty of showers. Here it is, this low pressure moving to the north of scotland. There is a lot of cloud through the afternoon, murky conditions with outbreaks of rain from the south west of england up rain from the south west of england up towards the wash. That will eventually slide away into the near continent as we head onto the latter pa rt continent as we head onto the latter part of the day. Skies brightening up part of the day. Skies brightening up behind and cooler air moving in as well. Showers affecting scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperature wise, quite muggy in the south east at 22 degrees
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