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from Virgin Media website weather forcasts

14 May 2010 11:35am
After a chilly start to the month Britain can look forward to "ice cream weather" in the week ahead, a forecaster has said.

Many motorists awoke to find their car windows frosted over as overnight temperatures dropped below zero across the country this week.

Now warmer winds are bringing weather more typical of May, with the mercury predicted to pass 20C in some places by the middle of next week.

Southern and eastern England are expected to see the best conditions, but temperatures will improve throughout the UK and over the weekend there will be highs of around 16-17C and the weather will continue to get warmer after that.

Rachel Vince, a forecaster with MeteoGroup UK, the weather division of the Press Association, said: "By Wednesday to Thursday, daytime temperatures could be into the low 20s.

"It will be fine and settled with some nice long sunny days. It's almost ice cream weather, like we had in April.

"There's a general pattern of temperatures picking up across the UK. It will be noticeably milder for everyone."

After an all-too-brief sunny spell in April, Britain has shivered in unseasonably cold conditions so far this month.

North-westerly winds have brought cold air from the Arctic - as well as the volcanic ash clouds from Iceland that grounded many flights and temperatures have been 2C to 4C below the average for this time of year, plunging as low as minus 6C in Altnaharra in the Scotland Highlands on Tuesday night.

The wind is now coming from the west and south-west, bringing milder air from across the Atlantic, as well as improving temperatures, this should mean less disruption to air schedules as the volcanic ash cloud will be blown in the opposite direction.

feel a power wash of the patio coming on , its very dirty from the winter weather but only has a soak away drain so quickly gets clogged up and wont drain, Was saying to OH that we really need to get the Karcher out!

Never mind the power wash, Shirley, am off to root out my bikini! LOL BC XX

wouldn.t dare get mine out BC ,it would frighten away everything including the sun !! can hear it now saying OH my Goodness put it all away it aint a pretty sight!! lol

Cold here!!. wish that nice weather would appear very soon...!!

Its warming up nicely over here too, today has been overcast and poor visibility due to dust, but the temperature has still been the warmest I have seen so far this year, it has reached 42C.

Hope you lot back in England have better/warmer weather as it has been cold.

A beautiful, sunny day here in London. Was only joking about the bikini, Shirley, I would be an object of derision! lol BC XX

lol BC xx

its a lovely day here in Medway area of Kent ,been out in the garden and the tortoise is virtually running around!. Looked in the pond as I fed the four big goldfish and wow there's two babies ,must have been last years as too big to be just spawned (they do spawn dont they?? cant remember the term ) Wonder where they have been hiding as all the plants died back for the winter. The adult fish are around 5 years old and didnt think we were going to get babies. Got a couple of newts too.
Still not karchered the patio though