Lots more glorious sunshine to come.

Thanks to Becky for the photograph.

High pressure remains in control for this week, it will drift around a bit but broadly staying over or close to the UK – and starting the week pretty much bang on top of us.

Monday sees long spells of sunshine, especially in the morning – perhaps some cloud bubbling up in the afternoon. Quite warm, 17’C. Mostly clear skies overnight, the odd mist/fog patch around by dawn, down to around 3’C.

Mist/fog/low cloud patches will quickly clear on Tuesday morning to long spells of sunshine. We’ll pick up an easterly breeze which will take the edge off – 15’C feels more reasonable. Clear skies overnight, too much of a breeze for a frost – around 5’C.

Wednesday sees long spells of sunshine all day, perhaps a bit of cloud in the afternoon at times. The easterly breeze definitely taking the edge off – 13’C, maybe 14’C. Clear skies overnight, down to around 6’C.

Long spells of sunshine again for Thursday, with a little high cloud in the afternoon making it a bit hazier. The breeze turning more south-easterly and temperatures will respond – 19’C, maybe 20’C. Mostly clear skies overnight, most likely anyway – down to around 6’C though very give and take.

By Friday high pressure is probably a little north of us. It’s a pretty delicate set-up, we could easily go much warmer from here – but likewise we could easily end up in days of chilly, cloudy easterlies. Confidence is not especially high by this point.

More likely, Friday remains in the warmer south-easterly, and remains mostly sunny, at somewhere between 17’C and 20’C. But there is a small chance of cloudy and chillier conditions instead.

Very low confidence for Saturday – I’d suggest something mixed in terms of sunshine and cloud is more likely, and lower temperatures – say 14’C ish – but very low confidence. It could be much cloudier and cooler instead. There’s still a small chance of the warmer, sunnier conditions hanging on too.

It will be dry though.

Likewise Sunday, it could be cloudy, it could be sunny, it could be a mixture of both – and anywhere between 10’C and 20’C is feasible. I’d favour something on the sunnier side of the spectrum and around 15’C as more likely – but there is a broad range of options depending on subtle differences in high pressure positioning. Again, it will be dry though.

More likely high pressure hangs around for the next week (perhaps even for most of April) so we’ll see plenty more dry weather, probably plenty more sunshine – though North Sea cloud will remain a risk at times.

Temperatures likely varying somewhat – a blast of Arctic air from the north-east still remains possible due to the sudden stratospheric warming event we had, overnight frosts remain plausible. But even easterly flows warm up in late April.

Later in April perhaps has more opportunities for showers – low pressure seems probable to be around Spain/Portugal/France more than normal this April, and may at times push showers our way – later in April.