Getting warmer this week – BBC Weather

After the chilly weather we have had recently across the United Kingdom, temperatures are about to rise.

Warmer air heading in from the south-east will bring temperatures up close to or even above average for a time this week.

Western Scotland is going to be the warmest with highs of 20C on Thursday.

It will not be completely dry however, with showers or longer spells of rain at times for many parts.

Over the last week temperatures have been below the seasonal average with some areas such as North Sea coasts not getting above 10C.

While the perception has perhaps been that it has felt colder for longer than a week, in reality temperatures now over the whole of April are around average.

It has however been once again very wet which hasn’t helped the feel of the weather.

Over the weekend just gone, some parts of central and eastern England had half a month’s rain, contributing to now an overall wetter than average month.

Parts of northern England, central and eastern Scotland have had more than twice the average rainfall for April.