UK Temperatures Forecast to Reach 34C Later This Week

Temperatures across southern England are forecast to reach 32C on Monday and climb further later in the week, with peaks of 34C expected on Thursday or Friday. The south and southeast are projected to stay mostly dry through Sunday, with readings in the mid to high 20s. In the north and west, conditions are expected to turn more changeable, bringing showers or longer spells of rain.

A yellow weather warning for rain covers western Scotland from 5pm today until 10am Monday. The Met Office said 20-40 mm of rain is expected widely in the warning area, with 50-75 mm possible in the most mountainous spots and a chance of close to 100 mm in exposed locations.

Manchester are expected to remain in the low twenties. London is forecast to reach 29C by 6pm Sunday before rising to 32C on Monday. The Met Office recorded the hottest June on record for England and the second-warmest June for Wales. A provisional new national record of 37.7C was set in Lingwood, Norfolk, on Friday, surpassing the previous June mark of 35.6C from 1976.

Today will bring cloudy skies and rain at times across Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northern England, with the heaviest rain in western Scotland. Elsewhere, hazy sunshine will follow early cloud, and it will feel warm or very warm for many.

Tonight will be fine and mostly clear in the south, though cloud will thicken across Wales and the southwest with some fog. Further north, skies will remain cloudy with rain heaviest in western and northwestern Scotland. Monday will see rain persist across northern and northwestern Scotland.

Northern Ireland and northern England will start cloudy with patchy drizzle before sunny spells develop elsewhere. Conditions will turn very warm and locally hot in the southeast. Rain will linger only in the far northwest before easing. Warm or very warm temperatures are forecast widely, with hot conditions at times in the south.