WALES has enjoyed it’s hottest Easter Sunday and Monday on record as temperatures soared up to 24 degrees over the Bank Holiday weekend.

While temperatures in the country couldn’t quite beat the records for Good Friday and Holy Saturday, national highs of over 23C made it the hottest Easter Sunday and Monday since records began.

Cardiff holds the new Easter Sunday temperature record after the City enjoyed highs of 23.4C, smashing the previous national best for that day of 21.6C.

Wales continued to bask in glorious weather over Easter Monday too, giving the country an unusually glorious Bank Holiday Monday.

The previous record for the day was 23.2C, but Porthmadog in North West Wales edged that by recording a temperature of 23.4C on the coastal town.

Flintshire and Wrexham enjoyed its fair share of the sizzling sunny weather too, with Hawarden recording temperatures of over 22C for all four days of the Easter weekend.

The North East Wales region enjoyed highs of 24C on Good Friday, making it the warmest day of the weekend, but not quite up to the national record of 25.6C.

It was a similar feeling on Holy Saturday, where the area basked in 23.7C heat, but that too was just shy of the national record for that day of 24.4C.

On Easter Sunday, Hawarden recorded a high of 23.2C – which would have set a nationwide record had it not been pipped by Cardiff’s weather which was 0.2C warmer to claim the title.

To conclude the beautiful weekend, Flintshire posted highs of 22.4C on Easter Monday in 2019, making it more than two times warmer than it was on the Bank Holiday in 2018 where temperatures reached just 10.2C.

In this record-breaking year, Hawarden was also nearly three times hotter on Easter Sunday in 2019 than it was on Easter Sunday a year before (7.9C).

We hope you enjoyed the summer weather over the Easter weekend, because traditional British weather is set to return with rain expected on Wednesday, April 24, and due to continue through to Friday 26.