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06:19Cathy Owen
Met Office forecast for Friday
Risk of thunderstorms, and further heavy rain later. Here is the full forecast for Wales:
Blustery, cloudy and rather humid today with heavy and thundery showers slowly clearing northeast. Drier for a time in the southwest, before heavy rain arrives spreads northeast later. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
Remaining cloudy as rain continues to spread northeast through the evening, turning heavy and thundery at times. Drier from the southwest by dawn but remaining windy. Feeling very humid. Minimum temperature 16 °C.
06:19Cathy Owen
Good morning
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