Weather forecast UK latest: UK set to be HOTTER than Costa Brava as 16C temperatures to last into weekend

UK SET for hot and dry weather over the coming days and into the weekend as temperatures rise to 16C.

There are still cold starts to the day ahead and some patchy rain but a large high pressure sweeping, but looking further ahead, it could be a hot spring.

Weather forecaster Jim Dale has reportedly said that it could get up to 28C by the middle of April.

For this week BBC Weather’s Tomasz Schafernaker says it will be all sunshine and dry weather.

“In the south where the winds will be light the temperatures will be around the mid-teens. Then Thursday and Friday the high pressure establishes itself across the UK, in fact a big high pressure spreading all the way from Eastern Europe to the edge of Ireland so a lot of settled weather,” said Mr Schafernaker.

“You can see the winds blowing around the high here. Northern and western parts of the country right in the middle of that high where the weather will be sunniest, the winds will be lightest and as a result will have the highest temperatures around 15C or 16C.

“And that high pressure is expected to persist Friday, Saturday and into Sunday as well although it will be a little breezy at times.”

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