it is an increasingly cheery looking picture today, with plenty of sunshine already across scotland and northern ireland, skies like these on the way for many others but we have the last dregs of a weather front bringing patchy cloud across southern wales, south west england, east anglia and the south east are slow to brighten up too. take a cloud on the way into scotland a0 so make the best of the sunshine today. the winds are coming from a north westerly direction for the most part, onshore wind keeping northern scotland a little cool, 17 in cardiff, the warmest day of the year so far in wales. overnight, clear skies initially, temperatures dropping quite quickly, colder than last night, there could be some main stand pulpits staying mostly clear and patches of frost in the coldest areas. high scale to the west on thursday but we have a weather front coming the north east which could threaten a passing shower, just about anywhere, to be honest. as potatoes by a warm front w