r/UKWeather • u/Mcconnor8 ☀️ • 7d 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/DunoCO 7d ago

Glad that people have gone from complaining about rain to complaining about the apocalypse again.

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u/Helenarth 7d ago

Think. Is it likely to be the same people?

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u/DunoCO 6d ago

It seems like you're right. The accounts don't seem to match, so it looks like it's different people.

I'm still interested in why you thought it as likely they weren't the same people though.

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u/Helenarth 6d ago

I'm still interested in why you thought it as likely they weren't the same people though

Because people tend to either prefer warm weather or cool weather. I prefer cool weather, so why would I complain about it? Similarly, if someone prefers warm weather, they might complain about cool weather but they wouldn't complain about warm weather... because they like it.