Daily Mail: Now the queue has its own weather forecast! BBC reveals it is 7C in the Elizabeth Line where mourners are facing a 14-hour wait to pay their respects to the Queen

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The queue to see the Queen lying-in-state has become so big that the BBC decided to give it its own tongue-in-cheek weather forecast - as tens of thousands of mourners continue to face a 14-hour wait to pay their respects to Her Majesty Elizabeth II.

The Government earlier people would have to wait more than 24 hours to pay their respects in what is thought to be the world's longest queue, which can even be seen from space. The queue potentially even eclipses the 30,000 Russians who waited to get inside the USSR's first McDonald's restaurant when it finally opened on January 31, 1990 after the end of the Cold War.

Wait times stretched to more than 25 hours overnight as thousands of mourners wrapped up so they could keep warm, the BBC even produced a tongue-in-cheek weather forecast for the queue just before 7am this morning - a crisp 7C, while other parts of the UK hit freezing.

At about 1.15am today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) online tracker said the expected wait time was at least 25 hours as people queued from Southwark Park in south-east London to pay their respects to the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall, about five miles away. At around 7.20am, the tracker said mourners would have to wait at least 24 hours and warned people not to travel to join the queue - and to check back later on Saturday.

However, by 8am the Government had said that the end point of the queue was once more accessible in Southwark Park. At 10am, the DCMS online tracker said the expected wait time was around 16 hours - then at 1pm this fell further to 14 hours.

Undeterred by the extreme waiting times or cold weather, a steady stream of people continued to join the queue last night. Paul, a 49-year-old Scout Leader called his 13-hour wait to pay his respects to the Queen 'brilliant' and was adamant he would do it all again without hesitation.

'The sense of camaraderie was amazing, we've made friends for life. Everybody was handing out sweets and cakes and singing,' he said.

The queue begins on the Albert Embankment, along Belvedere Road, behind the London Eye, then crosses Lambeth Bridge and travels along the South Bank past the National Theatre, Tate Modern and HMS Belfast, before ending in Southwark Park.