Matthew Martin

Yes, of course, we did have a very wet winter and early spring, particularly across the east and southeast of the country.

And even in the southeast, it was the second wettest winter since records began in 1942.

And that was only surpassed by the washout of the winter we had in 2016.

So, of course, the settled weather that we're expecting this weekend and into next week is, of course, a welcome change.

But it's not going to be all clear for the weekend.

We do have some showers moving up

particularly in the south and west tonight.

So that's something to keep an eye on.

But otherwise, the weekend is looking mostly dry with a mix of clouds and sunny spells and temperatures getting up to between about 15 and 21 degrees.

No, it wouldn't necessarily be too unusual.

We do have obviously settled and warm weather sometimes in April.

Temperature is about two or three degrees above the norm over the next seven days.

But nothing too unusual really for this time of year.

So it looks at the moment like it's going to push out until the middle of next week, perhaps later next week.

There's lots of uncertainty, though, in the forecast from around Thursday of next week.

But there is certainly still some hope that it will hang on through the bank holiday weekend.

Unfortunately, I couldn't give you too much.

that.

But at the moment, certainly there are indications that the high pressure that we have at the moment will likely break down kind of after next weekend anyway.

But beyond that, it's very much probabilistic forecasting and very uncertain.