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Your support makes all the difference.Who needs foreign trips? Forecasters say the UK is likely to enjoy warmer than average temperatures this summer.
The Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office, Ewen McCallum, said: "After two disappointingly-wet summers, the signs are much more promising this year. We can expect times when temperatures will be above 30 °C, something we hardly saw at all last year."
He said prolonged spells of warm weather were likely. He warned that while there was a two in three chance the forecast would be right, that meant there was a one in three chance it would be wrong.
Although the forecast is for a drier and warmer summer than average that does not mean that we will not get some heavy downpours at times, say long-range forecasters. However, a repeat of the wet summers of 2007 and 2008 is unlikely.
They even say we can look forward to a 'barbecue summer'.
The Government Services Director, Rob Varley, stressed: "Our long-range forecasts are proving useful to a range of people, such as emergency planners and the water industry, in order to help them plan ahead. They are not forecasts which can be used to plan a summer holiday or inform an outdoor event."
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