The Met Office has confirmed temperatures of 22C in St James's Park, central London.
The AA predicts 27.6 million car journeys will be made over the course of the weekend, with motorists urged to get in the car on Saturday, rather than Friday.
Traffic will be heaviest in Kent, where P&O ferries from Dover to Calais have been suspended all weekend.There are also likely to be queues around Stansted and Gatwick airports as weekend engineering works mean buses replace trains on routes from London.Aviation data firm Cirium said 9,212 flights with 1.6 million seats are scheduled to depart from UK airports between Good Friday and Easter Monday - 78% of the total for Easter 2019.
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