Leeds weather on Monday will look like dry run for a change of seasons, starting off cloudy and cool, before changing to outright sunny and hot.
The Met Office describes the weather as "Cloudy changing to sunny by lunchtime". From around 1am till 6am Leeds should see some dark clouds, and even some isolated but peristent showers.
This is forecast to die down by 10am when conditions become partly cloudy with some sunshine. This should change further by luncthime when it starts to pick up heat.
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Temperatures will be at their heighest between 2pm and 5pm, going as high as 21C and with a level 7 warning for UV exposure. This rapid gain in heat will have people speculating about a potential heatwave in future.
Last year, the UK saw some of the highest temperatures ever recorded. Two heat waves battered the country.
The Met Office has already predicted that 2023 will be quite hot. In a December blog post, the Met Office said: "The average global temperature for 2023 is forecast to be between 1.08 °C and 1.32°C (with a central estimate of 1.20 °C) above the average for the pre-industrial period (1850-1900): the tenth year in succession that temperatures have reached at least 1°C above pre-industrial levels."
The Met Office’s Dr Nick Dunstone, who has led the 2023 global temperature forecast, said: “The global temperature over the last three years has been influenced by the effect of a prolonged La Niña – where cooler than average sea-surface temperatures occur in the tropical Pacific. La Niña has a temporary cooling effect on global average temperature.”
But Nick Dunstone added: “For next year our climate model is indicating an end to the three consecutive years with La Niña state with a return to relative warmer conditions in parts of the tropical Pacific. This shift is likely to lead to global temperature in 2023 being warmer than 2022.”
Prof. Adam Scaife, Head of Long-range Prediction at the Met Office, added: “So far 2016 has been the warmest year in the observational record which began in 1850. 2016 was an El Niño year where the global temperature was boosted by warmer waters in parts of the tropical Pacific. Without a preceding El Niño to boost global temperature, 2023 may not be a record-breaking year, but with the background increase in global greenhouse gas emissions continuing apace it is likely that next year will be another notable year in the series.”
No doubt as temperatures start to rise, talks of when, where and if the heatwave happens will intensify.
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