Uk weather forecast: heatwave maps show sweltering 30c heats to hit

Weather forecasters are looking at an area of high pressure over the UK pushing thermometers upwards over the coming days. BBC Weather forecaster Nick Miller warned scorching temperatures

“will gather pace” this weekend before the heatwave hits next week. Mr Miller said he expects dry and clear skies to pave the way for more sunshine and temperatures in the low-20s on Sunday.

BBC Weather expects the heat to pick in the next few days hitting 30C in parts of the UK. Forecaster Helen Willetts said: “Highs are creeping up so 26C or 27C into Monday and then slowly

creeping up on that. ‘We’re picking up a little bit of an easterly breeze on Tuesday which may moderate the temperature a little on the south coast, but again, the high pressure is steering

those weather fronts at bay. “And its not just here in the UK we’re seeing the heat but right across Iberia and Western Europe and indeed eastern parts of Europe as well. “But as we move

into Wednesday that heat is developing even further north, so through the Welsh Marches and Midlands, and it’s a larger area seeing this higher temperatures getting into the high-20s.” By

Wednesday some of the hotter weather will move westwards and reach parts of coastal Northern Ireland. Unfortunately there is very little rain in the forecast for next week. GFS model weather

maps show temperatures in the high-20s sweeping though the south of England and around Manchester by Thursday, June 28. Towards the end of next week temperatures look to fall back a bit

into the low-20s again. The Met Office is similarly expecting temperatures higher than the weekend and “unbroken sunshine for many parts of the UK” next week. Temperatures as high as 30C

could hit the UK by Wednesday. Met Office forecaster Frank Saunders said: “As warmer air from the continent moves towards the UK from Wednesday, temperatures will climb into the mid to

high-20s quite widely, even in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. “By this stage, some places in England and Wales will very likely top 30C – it’s not unlikely somewhere could reach

32C. “With almost wall-to-wall sunshine we’ll certainly be looking at conditions which many of us would call a heatwave.” Deputy chief meteorologist Jason Kelly added the spell of warm

weather will likely hang around until the end of June and continue through the start of July. The highest temperature on record in the UK so far was 29.1C at St James's Park, London, on

April 19. The highest June temperature on record is 35.6C recorded at recorded at Camden Square on June 29, 1957, and in Southampton on one 28, 1976.