Brits have flocked to parks, beaches and beauty spots to enjoy the sunny weather over the Easter weekend – but enjoy it while it lasts.

The pleasant spell is predicted to come to an abrupt end on Easter Monday, with wind and rain to follow in some areas later next week.

A yellow warning for wind has been issued by the Met Office from 3pm on Tuesday until 6am on Wednesday, with gusts of up to 60mph anticipated.

It covers the South West, Wales, the Lake District, the east coast of Northern Ireland and Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.

Temperatures on Easter Sunday had been expected to top this year’s record of 17.8C but instead fell just half a degree short.

The mercury rose to 17.3C in Chertsey, Surrey, just shy of this year’s record of 17.8C which was recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk, on March 30.

But thousands were still pictured soaked up the long-awaited rays today.

The UK was hotter than Rome, which hit 16C for the second day in a row.

On Sunday evening, a band of rain drifting across the Irish Sea is expected to bring blustery showers to the west coast.

This will cover much of the UK on Monday, with a risk of hail and thunderstorms in places, along with a few sunny spells too.

The yellow warning will remain in place longer for the South West and parts of South Wales – until midnight on Wednesday.

Met Office meteorologist Honor Criswick said: ‘We were thinking this morning we would potentially get the warmest day of the year so far but we have not reached that.

‘Today for most of us it has been quite a dry and bright day with sunny spells. It will generally feel cooler tomorrow.

‘We do have a system out to the west bringing spells of wet weather which are currently in Northern Ireland and are just about to creep into the Western Isles.

‘As that starts to move through cloud will thicken up from the west and that will spread eastwards.

‘On Monday morning most of the rain will be across the South and South East and behind it there are going to be sunny spells and blustery showers.

‘On Tuesday we do have quite a deep area of low pressure moving in bringing further rain in from the South West. We could see some heavy downpours.

‘It will remain fairly unsettled later in the week but on Thursday it looks like the winds will begin to de-escalate.’

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