Brits could bask in the warmest October 1 in twelve years as autumn sunshine hits with temperatures up to 24C over the weekend.
Storm Agnes which struck regions of the United Kingdom looks set to move aside and make way for sunshine and drier days, starting with highs of 20C.
According to the BBC’s weather centre, temperatures will remain up to 20C as we roll into Saturday and by Sunday the mercury could reach 24C in the southeast.
A recording of 24C would make it the warmest October day for four years and the warmest October 1 in 12 years, and luckily the sunny weather looks set to stick around into next week.
The sunshine comes after Brits revelled in a September heatwave following a bleak and dismal summer.
The Met Office said any early cloud and rain in eastern counties Friday morning would soon clear, leaving a dry and sunny day with an abundance of bright periods.
It would be breezy at first in the east, but winds would ease throughout the day before a dry night.
Saturday would also be a mostly dry day with possible rain overnight.
Monday will be cloudy but temperatures will stay in the low 20s.
The settled conditions follow heavy rain, high winds and power cuts caused by the first named storm of the season, Agnes.
Storm Agnes struck the United Kingdom and Ireland on Wednesday, falling trees and ripping a roof off a building amid gusts of 83mph and 1.3in of rain (33mm).
More than 700 homes lost power in Devon and Cornwall, the RNLI rescued a sailor in a vessel ten miles off Ireland and a fallen tree trapped a pensioner inside his home.
Strong winds hit tents housing 350 Ukrainian refugees in County Laois, ferries were cancelled and airlines including easyJet and Ryanair encountered disruption.
Councillor Aisling Moran said she’d received reports that tents had blown down and that large puddles of water were surrounding them.
Agnes drummed up a high of 83mph winds at Capel Curig in North Wales on Wednesday evening.
Elsewhere, winds were recorded reaching speeds of 68mph at Aberdaron in Wales, 58mph at Glenanne in Northern Ireland, and 54mph at Camborne, Cornwall.
The storm triggered a string of Met Office yellow weather alerts for wind and rain across the United Kingdom, with forecasts of fierce winds and big stormy seas.
A heatwave in October really doesn’t get any better than that.
However, it’s called a forecast for a reason because it’s founded on probability and computer models. They don’t have a time machine and they can’t actually see into the future.
I’m sure the Climate Change crew will find all of this data extremely valuable.
I’m not sure about everybody else, but I love this weather. Bring on Global Warming, but I’m just cynical and it will all be different in the next decade. We should all stop peeing in our pants about everything.
There have definitely been more spiders this year. They’ve been spinning their webs inside my house, little baby ones!
The climate doom-mongers must be rubbing their hands together with joy. Me, I’m just glad my heating bill will be less this winter.
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