{"id":479672,"date":"2026-03-17T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479672\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:16:07","slug":"uk-weather-spring-to-make-a-comeback-with-warmest-day-of-the-year-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479672\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Spring to make a comeback with warmest day of the year forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The colder Arctic air across the UK over the last few days has meant temperatures have struggled to reach double figures for many. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Combined with some wintry showers and snow over higher ground, it felt like winter had made a return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, through this week a warmer southerly wind will draw up air from the Mediterranean and bring temperatures around 6 or 7 degrees above average on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Widely across England and Wales temperatures will get into the mid to high teens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Wales we&#8217;re very likely to see the warmest day of the year so far with the temperature exceeding the 17.8C recorded at Porthmadog on 5 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there&#8217;s a possibility somewhere in the Midlands, north-west England or north-west Wales could see a temperature close to 20C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Potentially exceeding the UK&#8217;s current highest temperature of the year so far of 19.2C &#8211; set in London earlier in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The colder Arctic air across the UK over the last few days has meant temperatures have struggled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}