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Hereford is set to be as warm as parts of Spain, including Benidorm, Ibiza and Barcelona this week, with temperatures set to peak at 25c.
Temperatures look set to rise as we move through the week ahead, with temperatures in Herefordshire predicted to reach highs of 23-25c from Monday to Friday.
David Oliver is a Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist. He said: “Despite media speculation, next week’s conditions are likely to fall just outside of official Met Office heatwave thresholds.
“However, this shouldn’t lead to any disappointment as many can anticipate a very fine spell of weather with temperatures reaching 27°C during the middle of the week.”
The highest recorded April temperature was way back in 1949 when Camden Square in London recorded 29.4°C on 16 April. Met Office Chief Forecaster Matthew Lehnert said: “We are not expecting the April UK temperature record to be broken, but some locations may nudge local records.
“Often warm spells are driven by warmer air arriving from further south, but the origins of next week’s air are from Scandinavia and central Europe.
“This air mass will be warmed by compression as the high pressure begins to build, and this warmth will be boosted by daytime heating from the April sun.”
A UK heatwave threshold is met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.
The threshold varies by UK county, see the UK temperature threshold map below. 
For a full weather forecast for Hereford, please visit – https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcq04hx21#?date=2025-04-27
