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Tropical air from the Caribbean will set temperatures soaring over the next few days across Cornwall to around double the average temperature for February.

It's after an incredibly mild half term that's seen us reaching for the sunhats, grabbing the barbecues and heading for the beach in Cornwall.

Temperatures could peak at 16C nationally and up to 14C in Cornwall on Monday thanks to a jet stream moving up from the tropics which has dominated the past week and brought us mild, if a little cloudy, weather.

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Emma Salter, Met Office metereologist, said: "Nationally speaking, things are rather on the mild side with the temperatures peaking on Monday around 16 degrees. That's come from the tropics.

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"It might brighten up later today. The next few days will stay on the cloudy side so although it will be rather warm there will be dsome outbreaks of light rain. A lot of hill fog and sea fog around in the mornings.

"As for those temperatures in Cornwall, we can probably expect to see today 11 or 12C today and tomorrow and on Monday we're looking at 13C possibly 14 degrees in the south west. Monday is the peak mildest day but it will remain mild into Tuesday and Wednesday.

"Normally it would be 7 or 8C so it is a really mild for the time of year. It's originated over the caribeean Bahamas. The jet stream is quite far north at the moment. It's kept the UK on the warm side of the jet."

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