Met Office confirms hottest day of the 12 months as UK basks in sunshine and 20C temperatures | EUROtoday

Britain is having fun with its hottest day of the 12 months as far as temperatures exceeded 20C on the spring equinox.

The mercury hit 20.6C in Northolt, west London, reaching larger than the beforehand warmest temperature to this point of 2025 – a studying of 19.7C in Crosby, Merseyside, on 9 March.

It coincides with the spring equinox on Thursday which has seen typically dry and advantageous climate with loads of sunny spells.

The Met Office stated photographs present “plenty of blue skies across the UK, although high cloud in the west is making the sunshine hazy here” and “in the sunshine across the south temperatures have already reached 20C in a few spots”.

The highest recorded UK spring equinox temperature was 21.5C in 1972.

Meteorological spring at all times begins on 1 March, whereas astronomical spring – or the equinox – begins round 20 March every year.

The different equinox is in September and each mark the solar crossing the equator, somewhat than being at an angle. Day and evening are due to this fact across the similar size.

But the nice and cozy climate has additionally introduced warnings of air pollution and indicators that those that are allergic to to birch pollen, a sort of tree pollen from birch bushes, could have robust occasions forward.

A excessive air air pollution alert has been issued for London, the primary this 12 months after forecasters at Imperial College warned of an increase in particulate pollution from mainland Europe.

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