UK faces 'unexpected' weather shift which will start 'on Thursday'
The UK has been told an "unexpected" weather shift could hit the UK - sending temperatures skyrocketing - as a late taste of summer hits the country with stifling conditions. UK weather forecasters and meteorologists expect a dramatic change in weather as we head deeper into September.
A Bermuda High is expected as a plume of heat from the Azores sweeps the country, with 25C highs expected at times. Jim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services and social commentator, said: “We haven’t seen much of this type of high pressure through most of summer, and this is going to initially come up from the Azores bringing high temperatures by the end of the week.
“This is a late visitor to the UK, as it usually affects the weather during the summer, but it is going to try its best to bring a return to some warm weather. We are looking at temperatures widely across southern and central Britain in the low- to mid-20Cs, and I would not be surprised to see a 25C.”
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Dale said: “Across the Highlands, the Foehn effect will bring higher temperatures to parts, although it is going to be further south, towards Cumbria, where the heat starts to build. It is safe to say that it is time to get out the sun-loungers and T-shirts and put away the winter coats.”
Met Office meteorologist Annie Shuttleworth said: “It looks like high pressure is here to stay. We see the next area of low pressure move in for the weekend, and that will probably bring some further windy weather to northern Scotland and a spell of wetter weather that sinks southwards into central areas but Sunday, but high pressure will probably hold on through southern areas.”
Exacta Weather forecaster James Madden said: “A significant area of high pressure will start to influence our weather, and some prolonged periods of settled sunshine will kick in across some large parts of the UK. Around Thursday or Friday, we will see this high pressure intensify to produce some extreme heat for the UK and bring a pinnacle of this particular heat surge.”