Despite the fall, the Met Office said it would remain warmer than average for the time of year. Easter Monday was set to be bright but cooler than the previous days, with peaks between 18 and 19 degrees Celsius in the southeast. The weather in the north and west is also forecast to be cold, with rain and stormy winds. Image: Cyclists at Hyde Park in London on Sunday On Good Friday, the hottest day of the year – 23.4 C (74.12 F) – was recorded in St James’s Park in London. Saturday’s high was 21.2 C (70.16 F) in Cardiff and a slightly colder maximum temperature of 20.2 C (68.36 F) was reached in Northolt, west London on Easter Sunday. Temperatures will continue to “drop” throughout the week, the Met Office announced. Tuesday may bring frost to Northern Ireland and southern and eastern Scotland, followed by sunshine and thunderstorms across most of the UK, with temperatures dropping to 17 C (62.6 F) or 18 C (64.4). F). Wednesday is expected to follow a similar pattern, with the fall due to the cooler front coming from the west and the east breeze later in the week. Marco Petagna, a senior meteorologist at the Met Office, said the weekend would bring a “cooler, more cloudy and cooler picture.” “There will be a tendency towards the end of the week to make things a little colder,” he added. “We have more of an east wind that grows more in the way of the cloud than the east.”
