Rain, rain go away... 90F heat’s on its way
CLOUD and rain will put summer on hold for another week although forecasters say the next heatwave is less than a fortnight away.
Temperatures could soar to 90F ( 32C) by the end of the first week of August as hot air from the Continent pushes into Britain.
But the next few days will come in stark contrast to when the hot spell in early July got summer off to a record- breaking start.
Leon Brown for The Weather Channel UK warned large swathes of Britain to brace for rain.
He said: “Low pressure will give heavy downpours in northern England and southern Scotland with a risk of flash flooding and thunder and becoming windy.
“The rain will move southwards early on Tuesday as the weather improves over the North although it will be quite cool everywhere.”
Thermometers in the South will nudge 70F ( 21C) with just 59F ( 15C) elsewhere as an unusually positioned jet stream steers storms in from the Atlantic.
The Met Office said most of the country will be unsettled although it will get slightly warmer.
Forecaster Rebecca Simpson said: “It is going to stay pretty unsettled over the next week with another low- pressure system over the UK. It is an improving picture but then Friday is more unsettled again and there is the chance of the odd thunderstorm this week.”
Met Office spokeswoman Laura Young said early forecasts promise a better outlook for the end of the holidays.
“It looks like for much of August there will be good periods of dry, settled weather.
“We might see some large spikes in temperatures and we expect the jet stream to return to a more northerly position.”
James Madden for Exacta Weather said: “The transition to warmer and more settled conditions is likely to see temperatures surging to heatwave conditions.
“This pattern change is likely to be quite significant and it will lead us in to a largely settled August with periods of warm to very hot weather for many, in particular, in parts of the South.”
However he warned surging temperatures would trigger thunderstorms with a risk of flooding.
The grim outlook has prompted bookies to slash their odds. Paddy Power is offering 2/ 1 on a severe flood warning being issued before the end of the month and 5/ 1 on July being the wettest on record.