Bank holiday scorcher for parts of UK - but it's not good news for all

After aroasting weekend many Brits will be hoping the glorious weather will be here to stay for the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend.

But the Met Office has forecast both misery and sunshine as some parts of the country will be blessed with glorious weather, while others could face the knock-on effects of a hurricane currently tearing across the US.

On Saturday and Sunday, the warmest areas will be in southern and central England, with parts of Wales also feeling the heat as temperatures hit and even exceed the mid 20s.

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Further north will be noticeably cooler, where the mercury will drop below 20C, with some parts of Scotland seeing highs of only 15C.

On Sunday, maps show the the band of warmth expanding outwards to coastal areas, ratcheting up the temperatures in popular seaside towns on the east coast like Southend and Cornwall in the south west.

By Monday, the country will be heating up as London and parts of the Essex and Norfolk coast are expected to see highs of 28C. However, traditional seaside resorts on the south coast, like Brighton, will be far cooler, falling below 20C in some places.

In the north, another family favourite for the Bank Holiday weekend is Blackpool, where temperatures are expected to hit 22C. It will be hotter further inland as Manchester, Yorkshire, and the Midlands show temperatures reaching 24-26C on Monday.

As the rest of the country heats up, temperatures look set to plummet in Scotland, with Edinburgh and Glasgow sitting around 15C and the mercury plunging to just 13C in the Highlands. There will be one pocket of warmth in Aberdeen where a balmy 21C is expected..

The national forecaster has also warned some parts of the UK could face a Bank Holiday washout as the powerful Hurricane Erin - that is expected to bring dangerous conditions to the US East Coast this week - delivers misery to Brits hoping for a glimpse of sunshine before summer is out.

Its winds reached 130mph as the hurricane re-strengthened to a Category 4 on Sunday and pummelled Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Its impact could spell a potentially "wetter and windier" end to the school summer holidays as a deep area of low pressure develops in the North Atlantic, the Met Office said.

While most of the country is expecting "widely fine and dry weather", the north and the west of the UK is expected to feel the force of the changeable conditions through the last week of August. However, the forecaster did advise the evolution of the storm is "highly uncertain", suggesting the forecast could change as the week rolls on.

In its advisory for the summer Bank Holiday weekend, the national forecaster said: "High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first bringing widely fine and dry weather whilst a generally northerly flow leads to rather cool conditions.

"This will be increasingly eroded from the west as frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic through the weekend, leading to more changeable conditions.

"Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic, linked to Hurricane Erin.

"This likely progresses towards the UK through the early part of the week. The changeable period will likely continue through the last week of August, especially in the north and west, with a small chance of widely wetter and windier weather developing. The evolution of this is highly uncertain though."