A warm week of UK weather – but will it be a heatwave?

The next few days won’t necessarily bring unbroken sunshine. In fact there will be large areas of cloud at times as well as some morning mist and fog.

Weak weather fronts will allow splashes of rain to move across northern Scotland, and perhaps briefly Northern Ireland too.

But as high pressure becomes more firmly established we will start to see more strong sunshine with high UV levels. Temperatures will also rise, giving us our first spell of widespread warmth this year.

By Friday and Saturday all four nations of the UK can expect temperatures into the low 20s Celsius, peaking at 23 or 24C in south-east England. Sheltered spots in north Wales and northern Scotland could see similar values.