All four of the UK nations have recorded their warmest Easter Monday on record, the Met Office has said.
Another day of spring sunshine saw highs of 25C at Heathrow and Northolt, in London, as well as Wisley, in Surrey, beating the previous English record of 24C in the Solent in 2011.
The highs beat the countries’ previous Easter Monday records of 21.4C at Culzean Castle on Scotland’s Ayrshire coast in 2014, 23.2C in Nantmor in north Wales in 1984, and 21.1C in Northern Ireland’s County Fermanagh in 1984.
All four of the Home Nations have broken their #EasterMonday records ??️ pic.twitter.com/Aakdp3mTuV
— Met Office (@metoffice) April 22, 2019
It comes after Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each enjoyed their warmest Easter Sunday on record, according to the Met Office.
England’s top Easter Sunday temperature of 24.6C at Heathrow fell short of the 2011 record when the mercury reached 25.3C in the Solent.
The other warmest Easter weekend days include the 26.9C recorded at London’s St James’s Park on Good Friday in 2011 – when the mercury also reached 25.3C on Easter Sunday and 24C on Easter Monday, both in the Solent.
⚠️⚠️IMPORTANT SAFETY MESSAGE ⚠️⚠️ Our crews at the #IlkleyMoor fire are reporting that people are STILL lighting barbecues on the Moor. We also have a car parked on an access track. THIS IS NOT HELPING US AT ALL! We are working with @WestYorksPolice @bradfordmdc to deal.
— West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (@WYFRS) April 22, 2019
Many Britons made the most of the last day of the bank holiday weekend, packing beaches and parks to soak up the spring sunshine.
Some were pictured cooling off in the sea in Broadstairs, Kent, while children played in the Ross Fountain in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens.
The National Trust said the blaze, covering 300 hectares of Marsden Moor, is likely to have been started by a barbecue on Sunday.
Police investigating another large fire on Yorkshire’s famous Ilkley Moor said a man has been charged with arson.
Two other men arrested on Sunday have been released under investigation, West Yorkshire Police said.
