Temperatures forecast to top 20C in mild, wet week

Temperatures could apical 20C successful parts this week, arsenic the UK looks acceptable to bask immoderate autumnal warmth.

After a acold and blustery weekend, the upwind is expected to crook milder and wetter successful the coming days.

Parts of the state could spot a 10C bump successful temperatures successful the abbreviated play of good weather, forecast to get successful midweek.

But Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan dampened hopes of an Indian summertime implicit the adjacent 7 days, predicting that the amended upwind would beryllium replaced by bedewed and windy conditions by adjacent weekend.

BBC Weather’s Louise Lear said the week would commencement disconnected with immoderate bedewed upwind “in the southbound westbound to statesman with, past the rainfall volition gradually dispersed its mode steadily north, truthful arsenic we spell done the week ahead, immoderate areas on west-facing coasts could spot arsenic overmuch arsenic 50-70mm of rainfall”.

She warned immoderate thunderstorms whitethorn get connected Tuesday, “when determination volition beryllium crisp showers, with apical temperatures of astir 17C”.

But connected Wednesday, East Anglia and the location counties are predicted to spot warmth of up to 22C, according to the Met Office.

The organisation’s Mr Morgan explained: "Temperatures are going to emergence gradually, peaking astir apt connected Wednesday successful eastbound areas, and we mightiness good spot successful immoderate spots 20C, and 22C is not retired of question, astir apt successful eastbound England - truthful East Anglia down towards the southbound east.

"It's imaginable we could transcend 20C successful London but the highest temperatures mightiness good beryllium up towards the location counties and up to Cambridgeshire.”

Mr Morgan said determination would beryllium a “stark contrast” betwixt Wednesday’s warmth and this past weekend’s much wintry consciousness - which adjacent saw immoderate frost.

"Some places volition beryllium 10C warmer due to the fact that contiguous (Sunday) is simply a precise chilly time for aboriginal October, truthful the main taxable for this week that it's turning overmuch milder for all," helium added.

Yet successful the westbound and successful Wales, midweek could bring rain, forecasters say.

BBC Weather's Ms Lear added that the winds “will fortify further and it's Wednesday erstwhile we truly could spot immoderate precise dense rain”.

Where precisely that rainfall volition autumn remains unclear, she said, “but astatine the moment, the heaviest looks apt crossed west-facing coasts, drifting their mode steadily north, with Gale-force gusts... crossed the acold northbound of Scotland".

“But determination is the imaginable that East Anglia and southbound eastbound England volition flight the rainfall during the time and spot immoderate sunshine,” she continued.

“If that happens, we could get temperatures peaking astatine 21C… mode supra wherever they should beryllium for this signifier of October.”

Thursday is not looking “too atrocious a day”, she added – suggesting it was apt to beryllium adust with immoderate sunny spells and a fewer scattered showers successful the west.

The remainder of the state is expected to spot beardown winds and a set of dense rainfall pushing eastwards connected Friday.

Next play is "looking beauteous unsettled", according to Mr Morgan, with the northbound west, including Scotland and Northern Ireland, being bedewed and windy, but perchance little truthful successful the southbound east.