UK weather: Temperatures set to rise every day until Thursday, says Met Office
Mercury could rise to 28C in the south east on Thursday
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Your support makes all the difference.Temperatures in the UK are expected to rise into the high-20s by the middle of next week, the Met Office has said.
While parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland will be cloudy and will have outbursts of rain on Sunday, the south will have drier and brighter weather.
Alex Burkill, a meteorologist at the Met Office, told The Independent: “It's the central and southern parts of the UK where the driest and sunniest weather will be. That’s where we’ll get the highest temperatures too.”
Mr Burkill said the south east will see maximum temperatures of around 20C on Sunday.
“There’s a lot of fine weather for the bulk of the UK up until Thursday,” he added.
Temperatures will rise every day until Thursday and could get as high as 27C on Wednesday and 28C on Thursday in the south and east of England.
Some places might experience temperatures 10C higher than the average for May, which is 17C in the south east of England.
Before the weather in Scotland improves over the course of the next four days, a “substantial amount” of rain is expected to fall in certain areas.
The Met Office predicts that up to 70mm of rain could fall in the space of 48 hours over higher ground in western Scotland from Sunday.
This level of rain is almost equal to the region’s monthly average of 92mm in May.
Conditions in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England will become less cloudy and wet by Tuesday.
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