Temperatures across the county are set to reach highs of 21C today.

The Met Office is forecasting unseasonably warm conditions for the south today, including Kent.

But meteorologist Tom Morgan says the country as a whole will not be seeing an Indian summer this week, as the mild weather is set to be replaced by wet and windy conditions by the weekend.

He said: “Temperatures are going to rise gradually, peaking probably on Wednesday in eastern areas, and we might well see in some spots 20C, and 22C is not out of question, probably in eastern England – so East Anglia down towards the South East.

“It’s possible we could exceed 20C in London but the peak temperatures might well be up towards the Home Counties and up to Cambridgeshire.

“The main theme for this week is that it’s turning much milder for all.”

The likes of Dartford and Margate could also reach highs of 20 degrees today.

Mr Morgan added: “It’s not going to be an Indian summer – an Indian summer is a period of fine, settled weather with widely high temperatures after a period of frosts.

“We have had some frost but it’s only going to be a day or two that we see these high temperatures.

“So it will be pretty autumnal with temperatures that might be much higher than this weekend, so into mid-teen temperatures.”

It’s a different picture elsewhere in the country, where a yellow weather warning for heavy rain is in place, stretching from Plymouth and reaching as far north as Manchester.