(I had my boiler serviced today, and while that was going on I was in the back garden pulling up brambles. No need for a jacket, a polo shirt was fine.)

Yesterdays menu for today included patchy showery rain. It's still there as the Met Office mention for here A rather cloudy day with frequent scattered showers which seems odd. How can they be frequent and yet scattered?

The BBC for here FWIW mentions a few isolated showers are possible, but otherwise it will remain largely dry but cloudy.

But anyway that's as it might be and not what it is.

EDIT - half an hour later, breaks increasing and quite a lot of blue sky to be seen

Today has been mostly cloudy and looks a bit brighter now, a few spits and spots of rain but nothing to register on the Davis.

12.7c currently and the max so far today

I expect we will see 20°C somewhere this weekend before the northerlies descend on Monday.

2.9, dew 1.3, the overnight low also being 2.9. Yesterday's high was 17.1 and I'd expect a similar high today. A mile away and 100ft up it's 7C.

EDIT: And I see Southend, at 2C, is the coldest in the UK. Yet just a couple of miles away at Shoeburyness, with a gentle breeze, it's 7C. That shows there's a very shallow inversion layer and it won't take much to mix it out!

Will the temperature reach the first 14 or 15C of the year this weekend IMBY?

What a wonderful turnaround. It is now a lovely sunny 14.3°C with light winds. 😎

Echoing that 30 miles inland where it has been glorious from the start. 16.2C with almost no wind and loads of sun. Better than many of last summer's weekends!

Must have been close to or hitting 20c somewhere today?!?

Surprised I didn't hear many mowers around here today, but yes, think this is a job for tomorrow to get rid of 10 layers of moss.