Brits are set for soaring temperatures and blue skies this week – with the country on course for the hottest April on record during the coronavirus lockdown.
Average day-and-night temperatures this month have reached 8.9C, 1.5C above average. They are nearing the 10.7C mark set in April 2011, the hottest recorded in the 361 years since records began.
It comes after record-breaking temperatures over the Easter Bank Holiday, when the mercury reached 26C – thought to be Britain's hottest Easter weekend for 70 years.
Met Office forecaster Bonnie Diamond said: “It’s going to be a week of wall to wall sunshine for much of the country, very little rainfall. "Temperatures are warming up day on day. "Thursday we could see highs of low 20C and