Provisional figures show that April 2015 has been the sunniest inMet Office UK records dating back to 1929.
The UK saw 212 hours of sunshine in April, seven hours more than the previous record set in 1942, and continued the run of sunny months since last December.
Several long-running observing stations recorded their sunniest April on record, including Morpeth (Northumberland) which had its sunniest April in its 110-year recording history with 265 hours (nearly nine hours per day), almost double the April average.
It was also a notably dry month, particularly across the southern half of the UK with only a third to a half of normal rainfall quite widely and less than 20% in some places.
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