New Year's Day is warmest on record, Met Office says
Sunday will be a little colder but temperatures will be still well above normal for this time of year, he added.
"Around Tuesday it will be much colder as the southerly winds are replaced by northerly winds," he said. "There could be some wintery showers, especially in the north of the UK. It will be a real change." It will drop to somewhere between 6C and 9C, he said - in line with the average temperatures of 7C or 8C for the start of January.The Met Office say the UK's record temperatures have all been elevated by manmade climate change which has raised temperatures globally by 1.1C.But the Met Office say warm weather records are being broken nine times more frequently - a clear sign of an over-heating planet.