Brits will get the chance to bask in glorious warm weather that resembles sunny spring instead of the dreary cold and windy conditions for the new year.
Mercury hovered in the mid-teens in areas around the UK on Wednesday, as forecasters suggest there may be a record-breaking warm end to 2021.
A Met Office spokesperson said temperatures were above average and should be lower.
They said the mild spell won’t lead to Brits donning bikinis and racing to the beach but it’ll mean the heating bill will slightly be reduced.
He said: “I imagine people certainly won’t be raiding their full winter wardrobes over the next couple of days – I imagine the thermals will be not needed.
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“Whether or not people will be wearing t-shirts or jumpers, I think that’s a personal call.”
They added “we should be around 8C or 9C this time of year really”, but the British weather has something else in mind.
A warm 15.7C was recorded on Wednesday at Exeter Airport in Devon, with St James’ Park in London seeing 15.6C as a close second.
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South England will see temperatures usually associated with September or mid-April.
“So it’s kind of an autumn-spring temperature rather than a winter temperature, but it’s not the mildest that we’ve ever seen in December, but it’s certainly milder than you’d usually see this time of year,” he added.
The previous record for a warm December is set at 17.7C almost 40 years ago in 1985, and the UK as a whole saw 18.7C in 2019 in Scotland.
He said: “No records today but the one that we’re keeping a close eye on is the New Year’s Eve one because that’s slightly lower, 14.8C, so if we kind of get a similar temperature to today on New Year’s Eve, then that record will be broken, but the December records yet, it doesn’t look like we’ll probably beat that.”
The spokesman said the next couple of days would deliver similar temperatures of between 14C and 16C, but after New Year’s Day temperatures could trend downwards, with bank holiday Monday expected to be cooler.
France and parts of Spain were also seeing high temperatures for this time of year, the Met Office said.
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