Spring Sunday warmer than most of the Med

Soaring early spring temperatures in the Anglia region saw warmer conditions than much of Spain, Italy and Greece on Sunday.

The highest temperature recorded in the Anglia region was on the edge of Thetford Forest at Santon Downham on the Suffolk-Norfolk border where it reached 20.4°C (68.7°F).

The UK maximum was only a shade higher at Gravesend in Kent at 20.5°C.

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In contrast, the Spanish capital topped out at 19.5°C while in Rome the maximum was 18.7°C. On the Greek Mediterranean island of Rhodes the highest temperature recorded at the airport was 16.2°C.

Average maximum temperatures for this time of year in the Anglia region are nearer 10°C (50°F).

The record for a March day in the Eastern Counties is 25°C (77°F) recorded again in Santon Downham along with Cromer back in 1968.

March 2013 was one of the coldest on record in East Anglia but the year before that it reached 21.6°C in Royston, Hertfordshire on 28 March.

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Maximum temperatures in the Anglia region on Sunday 9 March 2014:

• 20.4°C in Santon Downham, Suffolk

• 19.4°C in Cambridge

• 19.4°C in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire

• 19.3°C in Writtle, Essex

• 19.2°C in Weybourne, Norfolk

• 19.0°C in Cromer, Norfolk

• 19.0°C in Woburn, Bedfordshire

• 18.9°C in Marham, Norfolk

• 18.7°C in Harpdenden, Hertfordshire

• 18.5°C in Cavendish, Suffolk

• 18.4°C in Bedford

• 18.3°C in Northampton

• 18.3°C in Wittering, Cambridgeshire

• 18.2°C in Norwich

• 17.4°C in Stowe, Buckinghamshire

• 17.3°C in Charsfield, Suffolk

Watch a report on how one seaside resort in the Anglia region reacted to warm spring weather