Parts of Britain are set to be hotter than Ibiza in the coming days with temperatures that could hit 20C.
After a weekend which saw the hottest day of the year so far, temperatures across much of the UK will again be “well above average” for much of the week.
London is expected to bask in warm weather until at least Saturday, with the highs in Lisbon, Barcelona and Madrid all likely to be several degrees lower than London’s forecast 19C tomorrow.
Greg Dewhurst, from the Met Office, said that temperatures could reach 20C in parts of England and Wales this week.
He said: “This week is going to be very similar. We’re going to keep high pressure just to the east of the UK and that means it will be largely dry and settled with plenty of sunny spells.
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“There is the odd exception, there could just be an isolated shower across the Midlands on Monday, perhaps northern England on Tuesday, but they’re going to be very isolated and most places will be dry and sunny.”
In London, temperatures are expected to hover between 18C and 19C tomorrow and on Wednesday, which is five degrees hotter than the forecast for Ibiza.
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For the rest of the month the Met Office said temperatures were expected to be near or above average, with high pressure likely to dominate. “The sunniest weather is expected to be in the south and east,” it said.
Long spells of sunshine are forecast for much of the country tomorrow and on Wednesday, with a “gentle south-asterly breeze.”
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It comes after temperatures reached 20C in some parts of the country on Saturday for the time this year. It was 20.2C in Kinlochewe in Wester Ross on Saturday. However, it was some way off the highest UK March temperature, which was 25.6C recorded in Cambridgeshire on March 29, 1968.
For the rest of the week, temperatures are expected to hold steady at about 17C or 18C, which is warmer than the average for March. The dry and fine conditions are expected to last until at least the weekend.
TheMet Office has predicted that this year would be one of Earth’s hottest. They forecast global temperatures to be 1C above the average for the pre-industrial period between 1850 and 1900.
If so this would be the eighth year in a row in which global temperatures would have exceeded the 1C above average mark.
