It was a very wet night here in Scotland and across England today, however, while this latest system clears east we’ve been eyeing a system which hammered the Eastern US last weekend. It’s spent the last 4-5 days crossing the Atlantic and deepening into an unusually potent July depression.

This morning’s visible and infrared.

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The first of it’s influence sweeps across Ireland today and the rest of the UK tonight and tomorrow but it’s centre shall remain out over the Atlantic but slowly move in mid weekend.

There’s a lot of warm, moist air streaming northward ahead of the main low which one pulse pushing through tonight, another tomorrow night.

Expect gusty winds and spells of heavy and at times torrential rain. west facing Irish Sea and North Channel coasts are likely to see gales and battering waves.

While the low has deepened into a tightly wound October-like storm-force low at sub-980mb, southerly winds ahead of the system will drive subtropical air north with a muggy 25C likely in SE England, 21C for Scotland and Northern Ireland along with pulses of heavy, possibly thundery rain sweeping from SW to NE.

Winds will remain gusty throughout the weekend.

While warm and muggy for the UK, the heat cranks over France, Spain and Portugal Saturday/Sunday.

Sat PM temps.

See today’s video.

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