The UK recorded 630 hours of sunshine between 1 March and 27 May – beating its previous sunniest spring in 2020 by 4 hours, the forecaster said.
Last week, the Met Office confirmed that both Scotland and Northern Ireland had already had their respective sunniest springs on record, beating their previous sunniest in 2020.
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