There is nothing unusual or uncommon in regards to the climate that’s heading in direction of the UK over the subsequent few days – it simply marks a return to regular spring circumstances.
It is the temperatures now we have had over the past couple of days which have been out of the bizarre, in some instances greater than 10C (18F) above the seasonal common.
26.6C (79.9F) at Kew Gardens on Wednesday was the second-highest temperature recorded in the UK through the first half of April.
It was only a fraction beneath the 26.7C (80.1F) recorded at Greenwich, London, on 4 April 1946.
The heat got here courtesy of a move of southerly winds from continental Europe.
Temperatures climbed abruptly, constructing over simply a few days to give all 4 nations of the UK their warmest climate of the 12 months thus far.
Climate change can also have performed an element, making an already heat spell even hotter than it may need been in a pre-industrial world.
