UK weather: Met Office map reveals where temps will hit 31C in DAYS as new hosepipe ban announced
BRITS are set to bask in highs of 28C today as revellers hail the return of sunshine – with scorching temperatures of 31C set to hit in just days.
The weather turnaround comes after a miserable weekend of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Sun worshippers will be slapping on the factor 50 and flocking to beaches as temperatures continue to climb until the end of the week.
Conveniently, the hottest part of today will coincide with the end of the working day.
Between 4pm and 5pm, areas across the south and south-east of England will see temperatures hit 28C.
“Often cloudy with patchy drizzle across parts of northwest Scotland,” today’s Met Office forecast said.
“Elsewhere, it will be mostly dry with plenty of strong sunshine.
“Some cloud at times, with a risk of an isolated shower developing across the southwest during the afternoon.”
Marco Petagna, senior meteorologist at the Met Office, added that Brits can expect to enjoy exponentially rising heat as we head into next week.
And from Thursday, revellers can build on that base tan as temperatures are set to hit as high as 31C.
He said: “I think Wednesday is probably going to be the day when we could start to reach the thresholds of 25 to 28 degrees, depending on where you are.
“But temperatures are going to continue to climb as we go toward the end of the week and certainly by Friday and Saturday we could see 30 degrees, perhaps just nudging into the low 30s.
“At the weekend, we could just start to see humidity increasing a little bit as well and nighttime temperatures look like they are going to be, so it will be starting to become more uncomfortable by night.”
Yet the duration of the hot spell remains difficult to gauge, and there are uncertainties about just how high temperatures will rise.
It also appears as though the UK will avoid the stifling weather of the high 30s and low 40s seen in the Mediterranean.
Mr Petagna said: “It’s a bit of a question mark going through the weekend early next week as to how long the heat will last and how high the temperatures will get, because some models are sort of pushing the heat away a bit more quickly, whereas others keep the heat going.
“At this stage it looks as though certainly into next weekend, we should hold on to hot weather across the south of the UK and temperatures could again certainly get into the low 30s in a few spots.”
It comes after Yorkshire Water said it would restrict hosepipe usage after the region recorded its driest spring in nearly half a century.
The county recorded a paltry 15cm of rainfall between February and June, less than half of what is expected in an average year.
Its reservoirs are 55.8% full, which is 26.1 percentage points lower than where they would normally be at this time of year.
“From Friday this week, people across Yorkshire will need to stop using their hosepipes to water their gardens, wash their cars or for any other activities,” Dave Kaye, the director of water at Yorkshire Water, said.
“Introducing these restrictions is not a decision we have taken lightly, and we’ve been doing everything we can to avoid having to put them in place.”
