Yahoo News Met Office verdict on 'super June heatwave' reports and 'hottest summer ever' claims
Forecasters are buzzing with the prospect of a "super" June heatwave that could set the stage for the UK's "hottest summer ever".
Weather expert James Madden, from Exacta Weather, predicts a "super heatwave" might roll across the UK in June, potentially outshining the scorching summer of 2018, which holds the current record. However, the Met Office is playing it cool, not quite ready to back up these sizzling predictions.
In their latest forecast, covering June 5 to June 19, they've hinted at an unpredictable weather pattern. It said: "The signal for any meaningful high (or low) pressure regime to become established remains elusive, which suggests that the weather could remain fairly changeable through June, with variations on what this will look like across the country.
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"Signals for both temperature and rainfall indicate a 'more-likely above average' overall. This suggests that further rain or showers are likely, possibly heavy or thundery at times.
"As is normal for the time of year there is likely to be some spells of warm sunshine between these showers."
Mr Madden explained: "Towards the bank holiday weekend, we will then see some strong high pressure taking over and influencing our overall weather pattern throughout late May and into early June, and at the very least, we will see top temperatures rising up towards or in excess of the mid-20s quite widely within this period (something that is currently being undervalued from elsewhere and within the various weather apps).
"Additionally, there is also a moderate to high risk for some even warmer to hot conditions to develop from in and around next weekend and into early June, and the overall and expected orientation of high pressure in this period could also see temperatures surging to some much higher values and potentially in excess of 30 Celsius or more for the first time this year as we leave the meteorological spring and officially begin the meteorological summer for this year.
"We now have that good cross-model agreement in place for some excellent and warm summery weather throughout the upcoming bank holiday weekend during next week. Unfortunately, they are still undervaluing how warm to hot it will actually become for this specified period, just as they did with the recent and supposed unsettled and washout weather of the recent weeks that never materialised and a weather pattern that also brought a more consistent run of much warmer to hot temperatures than were actually being indicated for from elsewhere (something I have been covering concisely and repeatedly for the exact dates of these warm to hot temperatures)."
