We started the morning with a hard frost in Darlington and temperatures aren’t meant to get very high today.

It will be mainly cloudy today changing to light rain by lunchtime. The warmest it will get is 10c, and pollen levels remain high which is bad luck again for hay fever-sufferers.

Light rain is expected between 1pm and 3pm with temperatures marginally increasing by the end of the week.

Here is an hour-by-hour forecast from the Met Office for Darlington today:

8am – Temperature of 4c, feels like 2c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

9am – Temperature of 5c, feels like 2c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

10am – Temperature of 6c, feels like 4c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

11am - Temperature of 7c, feels like 6c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

12pm – Temperature of 8c, feels like 7c. 5 per cent chance of precipitation.

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1pm – Temperature of 9c, feels like 7c. 30 per cent chance of precipitation.

2pm – Temperature of 8c, feels like 7c. 40 per cent chance of precipitation.

3pm – Temperature of 8c, feels like 7c. 80 per cent chance of precipitation.

4pm – Temperature of 9c, feels like 8c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

5pm – Temperature of 9c, feels like 8c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

6pm – Temperature of 9c, feels like 8c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

7pm – Temperature of 9c, feels like 7c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

8pm – Temperature of 8c, feels like 7c. 5 per cent chance of precipitation.

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9pm – Temperature of 7c, feels like 6c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

10pm – Temperature of 7c, feels like 6c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.

11pm – Temperature of 7c, feels like 6c. 10 per cent chance of precipitation.