Showers are expected across Merseyside and the North West today and throughout the rest of the week.
However the Met Office predicts that warm weather is just around the corner, with highs of 20C in Liverpool and 25C down south over the weekend. Low pressure is set to bring heavy rain from the south and southeast but showers will be broken up by sunny spells on Wednesday, May 11.
On Thursday, it's set to be cloudy but again, bright spells could help temperatures top 15C. It is due to feel bright and breezy on Friday and the Met Office says it will turn gradually warmer.
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Temperatures will rise towards the weekend, as a high pressure system moves in from North Africa. BBC weather forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker said: “Thursday into Friday the high pressure starts to build in so this is where the sunny warmer, I’m not going to say better weather necessarily because we need the rainfall, but the warmer sunnier weather is to the south of us, we’ve got that more unsettled weather to the north again with hints of rain a cross parts of western Scotland.
"But which ever way you look at it, it is really starting to settle down by Friday with widespread sunny skies and temperatures 20C in London." Despite the unsettled start to the month, it's still expected to heat up from mid May onwards.
Yesterday, the ECHO reported, bookies are now making it odds on that this month will be a record-breaker. Coral was today giving odds of 4-5 for heat records being broken, and it was offering evens for this summer to be the UK’s hottest ever – topping 38.7C set in Cambridge in July 2019.
John Hill, from the bookmaker, said: "It’s going to feel like summer has come early over the next few days. As a result of soaring temperatures we have slashed the odds on this month ending as a record hot May.
"Looking further ahead, we now make it odds-on to be a record hot summer and we are not ruling out the UK having its highest ever temperature."
