A week on from a dreary, rain soaked Monday temperatures will start to soar well into the twenties and banish miserable May weather woes.
Come Wednesday parts of the UK will be hotter than Benidorm as a hot front of air makes it way up from France.
Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle will be comfortably in the realms of t-shirt weather from Tuesday onwards as sunny spells keep the mercury high.
"We're going to be expecting very dry weather with plenty of sun within the next three days," Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell told Sun Online.
"The temperature will peak on Wednesday, reaching 24C in parts of Scotland and northern England.
"We're going to see some rain creep in the the second half of the week, as temperatures will begin to settle down on Friday."
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Once a slightly chilly start to the day has been thawed, cloudless blue skies and sunny spells will make for a warm, summery Monday.
Aside from a little breeze cooling things slightly in the south and west, long stretches of sunshine will dominate the start to the week.
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There will be virtually no chance of rain anywhere across the UK except on the Shetland Islands, where heavy cloud and regular showers are an unsurprising addition to a chilly late Spring day.
The further south in the country you are, the cooler it will be, although temperatures are unlikely to drop below 14°C except in the furthest eastern and western corners.
Northern Wales and Norther Ireland will enjoy a warm Monday peaking in the high teens celcius.
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Come Friday however, and periods of rain may signal a slide back into the dreary weather that was cast over the isle last week.
An unsettled weekend will see rain, cloud and stronger winds taking daytime temperatures below the seasonal average.
The longer term prospect could well be more positive however.
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Exactly a year ago today the temperature peaked at 16°C in London - a little cooler than would be expected for this time of the year.
What followed was three months of scorchingly hot weather that had temperatures stuck around the 30°C mark for days on end across the UK.
Whether we will return to such unexpected months of scorched public parks, hosepipe bans and successful football tournaments is yet to be seen.
