Brits will be basking in balmy sunshine with highs of 73.4F (23C) today as settled weather continues, before summer officially ends and rain moves in on Friday.
Dry weather continues today with spots of cloud across the country, as people enjoy the last of the Bank Holiday sunshine.
Sunshine and warm weather saw Britain’s beaches packed with Bank Holiday sunbathers enjoying the August weather, as clouds stayed away for London’s Notting Hill Carnival, pride events and Reading and Leeds festival over the weekend.
And rain will continue to stay away, with today staying mostly dry, with some warm, sunny outbreaks in the south, peaking at 23C near Bristol and Cardiff.
Coastal areas to the east of the country will be cooler with temperatures in the high teens and low 20s, between 62.6F (17C) and 59F (15C).
Bank Holiday Monday should see little rain, as the high pressure system continues to dominate the country’s weather, with it staying warm and ‘settled’.
Any light spots of rain in northern England this morning will ease, although some drizzle may continue to hang on in the northeast of the UK. There may even be a short shower hitting Scotland, and Wales.
meteorologist Greg Dewhurst told MailOnline that the biggest change is coming at the end of the week, as the country enters Meteorological Autumn. Rain will move in from the Atlantic, bringing wet weather to Northern Ireland and Scotland first, with it hitting the north of the UK on Friday.
This will include some ‘heavier bursts’ and ‘longer periods of rain’, then spreading across the country by Saturday and Sunday.
While it has been a ‘record breaker of a season’ with 104F (40C) highs, the country is now moving into its next phase, explained Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud.
‘We are now heading towards the end of Meteorological Summer, but we are doing so in a rather warm and quiet note,’ he said.
The beach is busy with holidaymakers and sunbathers enjoying the sunshine at the seaside resort of Lyme Regis in Dorset
Rowers make their way along the River Avon in Warwick on Monday morning, as settled weather continues
Sunbathers filled the beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset on Monday as Brits enjoyed the August sun before rain arrives on Friday
Parched grass contrasts to artificial grass at St Nicholas’ Park in Warwick.
Rain will be arriving in the country by Friday
‘It’s a fine and bright start for many of us on Monday morning, especially in the west. further east we are seeing some pushing westwards from the North Sea and that cloud is thick enough to give a few outbreaks of light rain and drizzle in places.
‘Now with the best of the sunshine in the west, that is where we are likely to see the highest temperatures during the course of Monday — so feeling pleasantly warm there.
‘Where we see that thicker cloud in the east, temperatures down a little on recent values.
So remaining dry but cloudy Monday evening, again with a few clear spells developing across the west and the south.’
The Met Office has also warned of brisk winds along the south coast today, between 15 and 20mph, with some localised gusts up to 35mph.
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