Parts of the UK will be hotter Majorca today as temperatures hit 23°C

Right now could possibly be the most well liked day of 2022 to this point (Image: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock)

These heading overseas in quest of solar and scorching climate will want they’d stayed at house at the moment, because the UK enjoys a Mediterranean heatwave.

Temperatures are anticipated to soar into the mid-twenties this afternoon, with elements of the southeast forecast to be hotter than Majorca.

The nice and cozy spell is more likely to make Friday the most well liked day of 2022 to this point, with Brits anticipated to take advantage of the climate.

The 12 months’s present document was set on April 15, when temperatures in St James’ Park in central London hit 23.4°C.

If that is exceeded at the moment it is going to imply Britain is hotter than Majorca and Ibiza, the place highs of twenty-two°C and 21°C have been forecast.

Forecasters have mentioned if peak highs aren’t recorded then it's ‘doubtless’ they are going to be sooner or later in the course of the week, with temperatures predicted to be gentle all through.

The vast majority of the south and southeast of England woke as much as clear skies and sunshine this morning, with Wales and the north of the nation seeing showers.

Sunny spells are predicted to proceed into the afternoon earlier than it begins to turn out to be overcast as showers seen within the north journey south.

The southeast could possibly be ‘very heat’ with ’23°C doable’ if the realm ‘will get sufficient sunshine’, forecasters have mentioned.

However the shiny climate comes with a warning and meteorologists have urged anybody heading outdoors to recollect to place sunscreen on first.

‘UV ranges will doubtless be excessive,’ Met Workplace meteorologist Annie Shuttleworth mentioned.

‘Some safety is suggested, and lengthy intervals within the sunshine not really useful.’

It could possibly be picnic climate this weekend (Image: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock)

Ms Shuttleworth mentioned that temperatures are anticipated to be ‘a lot hotter than common’ all through Could.

‘Common temperatures at this level in early Could is about 17C for London and someplace round 15C outdoors of that,’ she added.

‘It’s fairly doubtless we’ll see these heat and far hotter than common temperatures throughout the UK.’

Excessive temperatures are anticipated to remain for a number of days earlier than dropping across the center of the month.

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