EASTER WEATHER
Easter weekend weather – what’s the UK forecast for the Bank Holiday?
BRITS will enjoy a scorcher of a weekend this Easter Sunday.
Here's what the Met Office has predicted for the weather over this Easter bank holiday weekend.
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What will the weather be like this Easter?
Brits are set to pack out beaches and parks for the third day running today as temperatures again hit 26C - and it's going to get even hotter.
Another day of "unbroken sunshine" across the country is expected, as temperatures soar to nearly double the seasonal average.
Temperatures hit a high of 25.5C in Gosport, Hampshire at around 3.30pm on Saturday and the mercury is set to go even higher, according to Met Office forecaster Helen Roberts.
And by Easter Monday, temperatures might even rise to a whopping 27C.
The Met Office also said that Scotland and Northern Ireland had experienced the warmest Saturday of any Easter weekend on record.
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The temperatures reached 23.7C in Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire, and 22.3C in Armagh.
The highest temperature in Wales was the 23.7C recorded at Usk in Monmouthshire, just shy of the 24.4C figure enjoyed on Easter Saturday in 2011.
The Met Office also said that Saturday's temperatures are around 10C higher in many places compared with the average for this time of year.
London has enjoyed 25C on Saturday, up from the average of 14C for this time of year, Cardiff saw 24C against an average of 13C and both Glasgow and Belfast notched up 23C, up from the usual 12C average.
Newcastle saw temperatures of 23C compared to an 11C average while Manchester and Birmingham both enjoyed 24C, up from 13C and 14C on average respectively.
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When is Easter?
Unlike Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day which all fall on fixed dates, Easter can be anytime between March 22 and April 25.
In 2019 it falls on Sunday, April 21 and the Easter Monday bank holiday falls on April 22.
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The date is decided by a complex set of calculations based on observations of the moon.
In early Christianity, different churches used different methods, leading to disagreements which remain unresolved centuries later.
Eastern and Western churches continue to celebrate Easter according to different calendars, although sometimes by chance the festivals coincide.
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