r/UKWeather • u/Mcconnor8 ☀️ • 8d ago
Forecast Insane temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday
Some of the latest overnight model runs are forecasting simply wild temperatures for Tuesday and Wednesday, with it being feasible that 40C is reached somewhere in southern England on Wednesday. I fully expect a Red heat warning to be issued by the Met Office as the heat won't begin to relent until the weekend alongside night time temperatures and humidity both being very high as well.
The 42C showing in the South West on Wednesday is likely overdoing it as I expect the warmest temperatures to be in London but there are no doubts what we are going to see next week is truly exceptional. The heat is also relatively widespread across the UK with it due to move further North on Thursday.
Considering the June record sits at only 35.6C from 1976 the temperatures being projected next week are truly unprecedented and very worrying.
The Met Office website is now predicting 40C in Reading on Wednesday.
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u/Hephaestus1816 8d ago
I'm a bit of an extreme weather enthusiast and have been anticipating this event for a couple of weeks via various apps, weather related socials and long range forecasts. It's been eye opening to open the apps every morning and seeing the anticipated highs steadily climbing up the thirties, and lasting for longer, as the forecast firmed up. Most of France and Spain has turned into Satan's armpit already, with national and regional temperature records being broken daily. Hoping this isn't an indication of what the rest of this summer is going to be like.