Easter Sunday set to be warmest day of the year so far reaching 18°C

The UK can expect patches of sunshine and warm temperatures over the long Bank Holiday weekend.

According to the Met Office, this year’s Easter break will be graced with ‘fine and relatively nice weather’, including ‘some sunshine’.

Easter Sunday is marked out to be the warmest day of the year so far with highs of 18°C before rain sets in on Monday. 

Dan Suri, chief forecaster with the weather service, said: ‘Ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend, unsettled conditions will see bands of rain – with some heavy bursts in places – moving eastwards through the rest of Wednesday and early Thursday.

‘As this clears a mixture of sunshine and showers will prevail for much of Thursday before a more settled pattern establishes for Good Friday and Easter Saturday.’

Despite a relatively chilly start to Friday in some parts of the country, the sunshine may see highs of 16°C in the south and 14°C in the north, with low cloud and mist along the North Sea coast seeing cooler temperatures of around 10°C.

The weather is expected to further warm through Saturday and into Sunday. Come Monday there are showers expected across the UK, though sunny intervals may prevail. 

Aidan McGivern, another meteorologist with The Met Office, added on Twitter: ‘My advice is enjoy the fine weather if you can throughout the Easter weekend, [and] watch out for any more unsettled weather as it could affect you into the early part of next week.’

So far this year, the warmest day was enjoyed on March 30 in Santon Downham, Suffolk, which saw highs of 17.8°C.

Forecasts for the Bank Holiday weekend fall fairly short compared to previous years, however, such as in 2019 when all four nations of the UK saw the hottest Easter Monday on record.

Highs of 25°C were recorded in Heathrow, Northolt and Wisley in England, with other relative peaks of 24.2°C in the Scottish Highlands, 23.6°C in Cardiff and 21.4°C in County Armagh. 

But the hottest Easter temperature ever witnessed in Britain actually came in 1949, when a record of 29.4°C was set at Camden Square in London.

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