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A fine outlook
 

26 May 2006

With the Bank Holiday weekend expected to have mixed weather across the country, prospects for the rest of the week look much more promising, if you are looking for more-settled conditions.

Forecasters at the Met Office are examining all the data available to them and there are signals for another change in the weather. For many schools around the UK it is half-term week, and indications are that high pressure will gradually build from the west, bringing a return to more-settled, warmer and quite sunny weather.

Mid-May saw a marked shift to wet and often quite cool weather for nearly all of the UK, as a series of Atlantic depressions began to dominate the weather. As of 25 May 2006, the country as a whole had received 144% of its long-term average monthly rainfall.

Latest forecast for the UK

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