Spring warmth to make comeback in UK with temperatures set to climb above 20C

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Blue and achromatic  formation  huts with a close-up of a pebble formation  successful  the foreground and a wide   bluish  entity  successful  the backgroundImage source, BBC Weather Watchers / Peter and Leah

Ben Rich

Lead Weather Presenter

April arrives adjacent week and it looks acceptable to bring a burst of outpouring warmth.

High unit and a provender of south-easterly winds could assistance temperatures to 22C (72F) successful immoderate places.

Largely adust conditions are expected with plentifulness of sunshine.

It is imaginable that we could spot the UK's warmest upwind of the twelvemonth truthful acold but determination is uncertainty astir conscionable however lukewarm it volition get - and however agelong it mightiness last.

Warming up during a mixed weekend

On Saturday precocious unit volition beryllium to the southbound of the UK with an country of debased unit moving crossed bluish parts.

That means unreality and outbreaks of rainfall volition impact Scotland and Northern Ireland - perchance spoiling the accidental to witnesser the partial star eclipse - and volition dispersed into Wales, bluish and occidental England during the afternoon.

The champion of the sunshine volition beryllium recovered crossed south-east England and East Anglia.

British Summer Time (BST) arrives connected Sunday arsenic the clocks spell guardant and precocious unit volition commencement to physique a small much strongly.

Most places volition beryllium adust with patchy unreality and sunny spells. Temperatures volition ascent a small reaching highs of 18C (64F) successful parts of confederate and eastbound England.

Even warmer adjacent week

Two upwind  charts for Monday and Tuesday showing precocious   unit   moving north-eastwards

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High unit tends to bring dry, settled weather

As precocious unit moves north-eastwards during Monday and Tuesday the upwind absorption volition alteration - from westerly to south-easterly.

This volition bring a provender of adust and lukewarm aerial from continental Europe which should gradually wide astir of the unreality allowing for much bluish entity and sunshine.

Temperatures volition besides ascent and are expected to highest connected Wednesday oregon Thursday.

Two upwind  maps showing forecast temperatures for Wednesday and Thursday - with temperatures arsenic  precocious   arsenic  21 degrees successful  places

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All 4 nations of the UK are acceptable to scope the high-teens oregon low-twenties Celsius

At this scope determination is uncertainty astir conscionable however lukewarm it volition get but immoderate places look apt to scope 21-22C (70-72F) - perchance the highest temperatures of the twelvemonth truthful far.

The existent maximum for 2025 came connected the outpouring equinox - 20 March - erstwhile Northolt (London) and Chertsey (Surrey) saw highs of 21.3C (70.3F).

Warm, adust upwind is not bully quality for everyone though.

High pollen levels will mean tricky conditions for immoderate hay fever sufferers, and with the prima gaining spot astatine this clip of year, UV levels are apt to beryllium moderate.

Is this warmth unusual?

Temperatures are forecast to beryllium respective degrees supra the mean daytime highs for aboriginal April which are typically astir 9-14C (48-57F).

However outpouring is simply a modulation play and tends to bring large somesthesia swings meaning spells of lukewarm upwind are expected - on with immoderate colder periods.

It is precise improbable that we volition situation the UK's highest April somesthesia connected record: 29.4C (84.9F) astatine Camden Square (London) connected 16 April 1949.

Will it last?

Computer upwind models are successful disagreement astir however agelong this spell of settled upwind volition continue.

Some suggest that precocious unit volition drift distant eastwards by the extremity of adjacent week keeping things reasonably lukewarm but besides bringing bands of unreality and outbreaks of rain.

Undulating grey and brownish  hills with trees successful  beforehand   and a cloudy entity  aboveImage source, BBC Weather Watchers / Curly Claire

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Colder upwind and wintry showers could inactive return

Other forecasts alternatively physique precocious unit to the north-west of the UK bringing a instrumentality of northerly winds, which would mean little temperatures and possibly adjacent immoderate wintry showers.

So with a batch inactive to play for it volition beryllium worthy keeping up to day with the forecast astatine BBC Weather online and connected the app.

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