All the parts of England set to see 'first heatwave of year' next week in 30C scorcher

James Rodger

16 June 2024 at 1:53 am·2-min read

UK weather maps have burned a fiery red with a North African plume sweeping the country by the end of the month. Maps and charts have finally warmed up before the end of June, with a sizzling 29C expected at times across the country.

Netweather TV suggests the south of England will roast hottest, with a hot plume of air sweeping that corner of the country from France, which is on course for a sweltering heatwave and stifling heat as we head deeper into the year.

Highs of 28C are due to be felt in counties such as Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, along with Greater London, Surrey and Berkshire. Liverpool and swathes of the North West, including Manchester, will experience highs of 26C.

In Birmingham, as well as elsewhere in the Midlands like Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the Black Country, the thermomete could nudge up to 27C - comfortably the hottest day of the year so far - by June 28.

Forecaster Ian Simpson said: "There is some chance of some of that North African and southern European heat making its way to the British Isles towards the end of June, depending on whether the ridges of high pressure from the Azores align in such a way that we pull in hot air masses from the south and south-east, but this is not a certainty."

"Predominantly west to south-westerly winds and ridges of high pressure [will be] moving in from the Azores at times, interspersed with periods of more unsettled weather with low-pressure systems coming in off the North Atlantic," he added.

Looking ahead to July, Mr Simpson said: "Temperatures are likely to be above normal overall, though with uncertainty over the extent of the anomaly. It will probably be drier and sunnier than average in north-western Britain, with sunshine and rainfall more likely to be close to normal in other regions, potentially cloudier and/or wetter than average for south-eastern Britain."

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