Today is officially the hottest February day on record in Britain as the temperature reached 20.3C in Ceredigion, west Wales. It is also the first time ever the mercury has topped 20C in winter in the UK.

Over the coming days, the Met Office forecasters said the unseasonably warm weather would continue, before the weather turns towards the end of the week.

This morning, temperatures across large parts of southern England were as low as 2C, but when the fog lifted, it brought blazing sunshine across the vast majority of the UK.

And just after 1pm in Trawsgoed, history was made when the thermometer reached 20C - the first time it has ever happened in winter since records began.