Five day 400 mile heatwave to hit UK over Bank Holiday weekend

Hot weather is on its way to the UK as a five-day heatwave is expected over the next Bank Holiday weekend.

While the south will experience the hottest temperatures, the north is set to experience temperatures over 20C reports the Mirror. The mini heatwave itself is predicted for the period between May 25 and May 29.

This hot weather front spans 400 miles from Europe, and sees temperatures in Yorkshire firmly in the orange.

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Areas like Leeds, Sheffield, Huddersfield and Bradford are all expected to see increased temperatures over the period.

Meanwhile, the Met Office also points towards "above average" temperatures over the period. In their long-range forecast for between May 22 and May 31, the Met Office said: "There is a lot of uncertainty in this period, initially the UK will be in-between low pressure over the near continent trying to keep things unsettled and potentially thundery, and high pressure to the west or northwest which would settle things down.

"This likely lending itself to a period of rain or showers or even thunderstorms in places mainly in the south and east whilst more settled conditions to the northwest.

"Later into the period increasingly settled conditions more likely for most, though southern or eastern areas remain occasionally less settled with showers or rain though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this in western parts. Temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely."

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With these higher temperatures on the way, the resident expert at Exacta Weather, James Madden, added: "Some of the main third-party computer models are now becoming more popular in recognition of the high pressure that rises across our shores throughout next week."

He told Birmingham Live : "This is now likely to bring at least another several days of warm to hot conditions and could initially see temperatures rising into the mid to high 20s quite widely, and 30C or more can't be entirely ruled out in the hottest spots and for the first time this year.

"Additionally, there are also some very extreme runs for heat coming through for this final third of this month and into early June, and this particular period and weather scenario for a heatwave is something we have been covering for these exact dates over the past several months in our spring forecast and over the past several weeks in our summer forecast for around early June.

"We should be in full recognition of these high pressure rises across the UK and Ireland with some good cross-model agreement on this, which looks to be perfectly primed for arrival during next week and in time for the spring Bank Holiday weekend and to begin the meteorological summer and June at present."