UK weather forecast: Brits braced for freezing night before temperatures soar by mid-week

Patrick Grafton-Green1 October 2018

Brits are braced for a freezing night as temperatures drop below freezing, but the mercury is set to soar by mid-week.

Forecaster say some places in the UK will experience temperatures as low as -2C on Sunday evening, with some significant frosts expected.

But the mercury will climb throughout the week and could peak above 20C by Wednesday, several degrees above average for the time of year.

Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill told the Standard: “Most of the daytime showers that we have seen in parts of the UK will drop off on Sunday evening.

“Skies will clear overnight and temperatures could drop to -1 or -2C in rural parts so expect to see some frost.

“Even in London we will see lows of around 4 or 5 so you could see a touch of frost there.

“On Monday it will be a chilly, sunny start for much of the UK but most parts will turn cloudy. There will be rain across Scotland which will edge towards Northern Ireland and England by the evening.

“For London there will be highs 14 or 15C which is as warm as we are going to get for the UK.

“On Tuesday that rain will push south-eastwards, so some rain will fall in London and the south overnight.

“It will be cloudy and dry, with a few spots of rain in southern parts on Tuesday, but will brighten up a little bit over the afternoon and will be mostly a fine day for northern parts with highs of 18C in London.”

By Wednesday the mercury is expected to hit the early 20s, with fine and sunny weather forecast in the south. The average temperature for early October is several degrees less, at 17C.

Mr Burkill added: “Temperatures will continue to climb in south where it will be sunny and fine. It could be 20C or even a bit warmer than that.

“Northern parts are likely to be a bit changeable with some outbreaks of rain and windy too.”

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