The UK could be set for the "warmest weekend of the year" as we celebrate the Queen's jubilee, according to one forecaster. Jim Dale, senior meteorologist at British Weather Services, says we could be set for temperatures of up to 28C.
He told the Express: "We're still some two weeks away from the jubilee weekend, but the long-range outlook shows a trend for some possible warm weather in southern areas, and closer to average temperatures further north."
"At the moment it's on course for being predominantly dry, nearly universally dry, predominantly sunny. So basically sunny, dry in the main universally and also very warm, increasingly so as you go through the course of the weekend.
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"And I don't just mean London that's going to be 27C - it might also be Edinburgh. In other words, Scotland and that far north is going to be in there as well. So it really spreads across the country."
He explained: "At the moment it looks favourable for a continental inflow. So we're getting this off of the continent and it's pushing up through Scotland.
"So that's why Scotland will be as warm, maybe even warmer than some south-eastern areas. And that will include Northern Ireland, Manchester, North Wales, as in getting the hottest temperatures.
"It is still a long way off but we could well be seeing 27C and 28C in certain places. So this could be the warmest weekend universally of the year to date. That's what it's looking like, with the caveat that we're still some distance away."
The Met Office is keeping its cards closer to its chest. Its outlook for the "beginning of June" predicts simply: "Drier than average conditions are expected to persist overall."
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