July set to hot up as high pressure system takes over
FINALLY July is poised to realise that it belongs in summer, not autumn. The grey, drizzly conditions that have made distanced garden gatherings such a hit-or-miss business these past few weeks are about to be replaced by something warmer, drier and more predictable, with the promise of more heat towards the end of the week.
The cause of all the dreary weather of late has been a succession of low-pressure systems heading in on a conveyor belt from the Atlantic, but today, and for the foreseeable future, it is going to be high pressure in charge over most of the UK. Another low away out to our north-west will mean that western Scotland and Northern Ireland continue to see rain and breeze today, but elsewhere that high means there is going to be a lot of fine and dry weather to enjoy.
The south-eastern corner of the country should get the best of it with 75F (24C). Across much of Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia, expect 72F (22C), but in Glasgow and Edinburgh 66F (19C). And, as the working week gets under way, it will continue, gently, to heat up, though that weather front that dampened things down in the North West yesterday will migrate south and make for a miserable Monday on Wales’s west coast beaches.
Throughout the week, low pressure will continue to bring an autumnal gloom to Scotland but, in the South and West in particular, it will feel as if summer is back after its early blooming in June. Wednesday could be a blip, with early cloud, but the dry and settled pattern will reassert itself, with temperatures slowly building towards 86F (30C) as hot air from a mini heatwave in central Europe heads our way. Roll on summer.