Dry and ‘pleasant’ Easter Sunday forecast for much of UK

The weather service said most of the country would see “some warm spells of sunshine” on Easter Sunday, although a scattering of showers was likely across southern England and south Wales.

Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell said weather over the Easter weekend would bring “mixed fortunes”.

Mr Snell added: “For Easter day itself, it should be fairly fine and dry, but as we move into Monday, we see the return of rain for most of us.

“But for Saturday into the early hours of Easter day, we still have some rain actually around for western Scotland and Northern Ireland, but also a fairly quiet night.

“The best of the sunshine will be for eastern Scotland, down into Northern England and also parts of Wales.

“In the sunshine feeling pleasant enough, we could see highs reaching 16C to 18C, but still feeling quite chilly along the North Sea coast with an onshore flow here, so temperatures...
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