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Lili Stebbings & Lottie Gibbons

UK weather: Met Office predicts date when 'warm and sunny' weather will arrive

The Met Office has said the UK is set for warmer and sunnier days following weeks of heavy rain and high winds.

Next month, temperatures are expected to rise as high pressure moves in.

This comes amid a particularly wet spring for the UK as a whole, the Met Office has said.

With eight days still to go, Wales has seen almost double the average levels of rainfall for the entire month.

The nation has been hammered with 170mm of rainfall so far, making this month already Wales' fourth dampest May on record.

On average, the nation normally sees 86mm of rain in May, with the record being 184.2mm.

According to DevonLive, Alex Deakin, a Met Office meteorologist said: "Through Tuesday or Wednesday next week high pressure will move in and then stick around towards the end of the month.

"From next week we should see more reliable spells of sunshine."

Annie Shuttleworth, a meteorologist with Met Office said: "The most likely scenario at the moment is looking like predominantly dry weather, at quite a contrast to what we've seen with the wet weather in May, so that would be an improvement.

"We have seen a lot of rain in Devon and Wales over the past week.

"They have seen well above those average in those sorts of regions.

"But there is a good deal of uncertainty in the forecast, so we're hoping by the end of May we will have much drier and more settled weather across the UK.

"If this drier weather does come in, it looks like it will scupper any rainfall carrying on and accumulating as it has at this point in the month."

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