A Met Office forecaster has identified the date of the next heatwave where temperatures in the UK will top 30C.
Scotland's last heatwave has been extinguished with a deluge of rain, but the weather is set to take a summery turn. Forecasters have predicted scorching temperatures in July, but an exact date has now been identified.
According to Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell, the mercury could soar again on July 15. He told The Mirror: "That's when we will start to see high pressure dominate and that will bring drier and brighter weather."
"It is early at this stage, but if you are betting then that's the best place for the warmest weather," he continued. "It will be more settled then but the first week of July will be changeable."
This date coincides with the Wimbledon Women's Final, Summer Mile Family Raceday at Ascot, preparation for the British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside and the second day of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival among other events.
Another expert says temperatures are more likely to hit the mid to high 30Cs in the second half of July.
"Over the first half of July there is not a strong indicator of hot weather," Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge told The Mirror yesterday.
"We have to remember that there is currently a one per cent chance of 40C temperatures in our climate. For mid to high 30Cs, we could get that and they are becoming more frequent."
What's more, Jim Dale, senior meteorologist at British Weather Services, told the Mirror there is a 60 per cent chance of temperatures hitting at least 35C in the second half of July.
But until then, the unsettled weather UK has experienced recently will continue into next week. The topsy-turvy pattern will see showers- sometimes heavy - combine with periods of sunshine.
Weather maps show a band of rain already moving in from the west and is expected to reach most of Wales by this evening. It'll then linger across the South of East of England by tomorrow morning, but be less heavy.
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