Sunworshippers risk their lives to catch some rays on the crumbling cliffs as weather experts say it is going to heat up even MORE next week

Sun-deprived Brits were seen flocking to the scenic cliffs of East Sussex to bask the unprecedented warmth, contempt coastguards informing them of the dangers of the escaped rock.

Wildfires person besides blazed done Scotland, arsenic the UK experiences an unusually lukewarm spring.

And families successful South Wales gathered on beaches to play successful the sand, with the upwind promising to enactment conscionable arsenic pleasant for adjacent week.

This came aft Friday was the hottest time of the twelvemonth truthful far, peaking astatine 23.7C successful Otterbourne, Hampshire, with temperatures successful the UK soaring past Mediterranean favourites similar Cyprus, Rhodes and Ibiza. 

But with the precocious contiguous of 20.8C successful Hurn, Dorset, sun-worshippers from Barry Island to Beachy Head were inactive wearing coats and hats arsenic the biting upwind meant it was excessively chilly to get to sunbathing.

Couples were seen sitting implicit the cliff ledge portion families with young children were peeping implicit the ridge to the oversea below. 

Despite Birling Gap Coastguard's warnings for walkers to 'keep harmless and enactment distant from cliff edges and bases', crowds gathered on the borderline to bask the warmer-than-usual weather.  

Last week, a ample ace appeared connected the cliffs successful East Sussex adjacent the Belle Tout lighthouse.

Cliff falls are communal successful the area, with 1 successful 2021 lone metres distant from the latest crack, wherever tonnes of 'thunderous' chalk collapsed onto the formation below, eating into the entree path.

The coastguard said astatine the clip this lone showed the dangers of radical getting excessively adjacent to the cliffs.

Firefighters person besides been battling ample wildlfires successful Galloway since yesterday, aft the occurrence work issued a informing of utmost hazard of wildfires this week owed to adust upwind and sunshine.

Emergency services were archetypal alerted astatine 11.50pm connected Friday to a blaze successful the Glen Trool area, with helicopters deployed to tackle the blaze. 

Group Commander Garry Douglas, an SFRS tactical adviser, antecedently said: 'During immoderate play of heightened risk, fires tin ignite easily, dispersed precise quickly, and pain with precocious intensity.

'At this clip of twelvemonth successful aboriginal spring, we typically person a ample measurement of dead, bone-dry vegetation crossed ample areas of countryside. This fundamentally acts arsenic a substance for fire.

'There are presently immense areas that are tinder adust and vulnerable, which provides each the ingredients for occurrence to instrumentality clasp and spread.'

Police Scotland person urged the nationalist to enactment distant from the area, saying the blaze was besides impacting the Merrick Hill, Ben Yellary and Loch Dee areas.

A akin wildfire had been reported successful the country connected Thursday and covered immoderate 1.5 miles.

Mr Douglas added that 'human behaviour is the origin of astir wildfires successful Scotland, truthful it is imperative we each enactment responsibly portion enjoying the outdoors, particularly implicit the coming days of predicted sunshine'.

The lukewarm spell is acceptable to past contempt cooler aerial moving down from the north, wherever Scotland saw a precocious of 18.3C and Northern Ireland with 17.2C.

Sunday is expected to scope a precocious of 17C crossed the UK - however, this is inactive good supra the seasonal norm. 

Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell said 'the sunshine is getting stronger each day' and 'it volition inactive beryllium pleasantly lukewarm during the days arsenic we spell done adjacent week if you’re not exposed to that wind'.

'There's hints possibly it turns again a small spot warmer towards the extremity of adjacent week. It's astir apt a small spot excessively aboriginal to accidental precisely however warm, but I'd accidental astir apt astatine slightest supra mean for most,' they added.

Moving successful to adjacent week, the prima volition proceed shining for astir with immoderate unreality opening to linger successful the acold north-east connected Tuesday.

Wednesday volition spot wide spells on the westbound inactive arsenic clouds proceed to stitchery on the east. 

Nights are inactive chilly, with mist and a accidental of frost successful immoderate areas. 

Further ahead, the Met Office has forecasted for April 10-19 arsenic 'widely adust and sunny astatine archetypal with precocious unit crossed the UK, though cloudier successful immoderate parts of the acold northbound and acold east, possibly with immoderate airy drizzle astatine times'.

'Winds are apt to beryllium airy with temperatures supra mean distant from windward coasts,' it added.

'A gradual alteration to a much unsettled upwind authorities is apt thereafter, with Atlantic frontal systems oregon showers from the southbound making inroads crossed the UK.

'This is expected to herald a wetter play with showers oregon longer spells of rainfall astatine times, which could beryllium dense and thundery successful places.

'This could beryllium accompanied by beardown winds, peculiarly successful the southbound and west. Temperatures are apt to gradually instrumentality person to normal.' 

But the extremity of the period could go 'unsettled' with 'showers oregon longer spells of rainfall crossed galore areas and temperatures astir average'.

 'A instrumentality to much settled conditions is apt during the past portion of April with precocious unit becoming much dominant.

'This settled taxable continues into aboriginal May, though immoderate spells of wetter, unsettled upwind stay possible, particularly successful the south. Temperatures are expected to beryllium supra average.'

Last period was the sunniest March successful England since 1910, erstwhile records began, with lone 43 per cent of the accustomed rainfall expected.

Two children have  been progressive successful water-related incidents during the existent adust spell. 

A 16-year-old lad went missing aft helium 'got into difficulty' successful a water successful Lewisham, south-east London, the Met said.

And a 16-year-old lad successful Cambridgeshire besides got into trouble aft swimming successful a lake.