Sun-starved Brits will finally see an end to the bitingly cold weather as temperatures are set to soar into the double digits today.
But flood warnings remain in place with a string of alerts in force across many parts of England. Met Office forecasters said that milder weather will begin from Monday with the mercury rising to highs of up to 13C in England and Wales.
By the weekend that will rise further to spring-like warmth of 17C. It comes after the Beast from the East 2 battered the country and left Brits shivering in a long and bitingly cold deep freeze.
The extreme weather saw the UK record its coldest temperature for 65 years at Braemar in Aberdeenshire on Wednesday night when the mercury dropped down to minus 23C.
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