Weather maps have captured what appears to be a huge wall of rain heading for the UK from the Atlantic Ocean.
While conditions have become largely more springlike in the country recently, forecasts have warned that they likely won’t stay that way for long.
Met Office meteorologists have predicted in the agency’s latest long-range forecast that “unsettled” patterns will dominate towards the end of March.
Beyond then, over the first few days of April, the still “changeable” conditions are expected to prompt widespread showers and even strong winds.
Charts have given Britons a glimpse of what is to come, with a several-hundred-mile wave of rain set to sweep the west coast in just over a week’s time.
Significant rainfall could develop over the Atlantic by Thursday, April 4, that encompasses the entirety of the west coast, WXCharts data shows.
Covering roughly 826 miles, it appears the showers are likely to pour out roughly 2mm of rain per hour widely.
Those totals rise slightly over higher ground in Wales and on the coast of Scotland and northern England to between 3mm and 5mm per hour.
The showers could settle in a thin strip on the coast, coming roughly 110 miles inland widely, while smaller bands of rain split off and cause lighter showers.
Maps from Ventusky paint a similar picture, showing rainfall in a large blob across northern Wales, England, and parts of Scotland by April 4.
At its peak, the other maps expect total rainfall to reach 5.4 millimetres per hour while the rainy system is parked in the Irish Sea.
Long-range predictions from the Met Office all but confirm the rainy track for the next two weeks or so, with “changeable” conditions likely between March 27 and April 5.
The forecast states: “Through the Bank Holiday weekend and into the following week, unsettled or changeable weather remains the most likely outcome.
“All areas are likely to see further rain or showers at times, with some drier spells in between, but wet weather will tend to favour the southwest while northern, especially northwestern, parts remain a bit drier on average.
“Temperatures trending up to rather warm in the south, but perhaps remaining often rather cold in the north.”
