Heavy winds and rain will drench the UK but drier weather isn't far away

There will be significantly less rainfall from Tuesday(Picture: Bill Guiller/PA Wire)

After a wet and windy start to 2024 we can finally expect a turn of drier weather, forecasters have said.

Monday will be the wettest day this week as a band of rain pushes its way south-eastwards overnight, causing widespread rainfall across the country accompanied by strong, chilly winds, says the Met Office

Scotland can expect a few cold starts, with early morning temperatures sitting lower than average, with early morning lows of 2°C or 3°C in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Temperatures of around 8-10°C are expected across England through the day, with highs of 12°C and slightly warmer temperatures.

Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said that in colder areas, such as northern Wales and Scotland, the showers may be accompanied by wintry winds bringing sleet and hail.

‘Monday is classic April showers really,’ he explained.

We’ve seen quite a bit of April showers this month (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)

‘We’ve got a pretty windy day across the whole of the UK with gusts of wind up to 40-50mph pretty much anywhere across the country.

‘With that, we’ll have some quite blustery showers which will be slightly wintry in nature across the northern parts of the UK.

‘You could get a little bit of sleet and certainly some hail so it will be a much colder feeling day.’

The rest of the week is predicted to be drier and less windy, with showers in northern Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland on Tuesday.

Parts of the UK enjoyed high temperatures this weekend(Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire)

In south and east England, it’s time to crack out the sun cream as sunny weather is expected.

Over the weekend, some areas in the UK enjoyed unusually warm temperatures, with the highest being 21.8°C recorded in Writtle, Essex, on Saturday.

This week, temperatures across the country are expected to reach the low to mid-teens with slightly warmer conditions in the south by Friday.

Lighter rain that has been seen across some parts of the UK will slowly move away towards the end of the week, making for a ‘mostly dry’ Saturday and Sunday nationwide.

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