In front of a calm and warm bank holiday weekend, the UK will experience sunshine and showers this weekend, with the south east possibly reaching 30 degrees.
The country will have sun and the occasional rain shower in the days leading up to the August bank holiday weekend, bringing an end to this week’s weather rollercoaster.
High pressure continues to build to produce a more stable weather pattern than we have seen this week, and Met Office forecasts are anticipating highs in the mid-twenties as the UK enters next week.
Beginning of last week, hot weather gave way to thunderstorms and torrential rain, which led to flash flooding in London and other parts of the UK.
On Monday, there will be additional rain in many areas of England and Wales, but it will swiftly dry up and be of little use to the nine districts currently experiencing drought.
There won’t be a repetition of July’s searing temperatures, despite sunshine throughout most of the week and during the long weekend.
However, as many people enjoy an extra day off work, Britons can still look forward to a weekend of exceptionally warm weather and sunshine.
However, the southeast of England will continue to be the driest region of the nation on Monday, according to a representative for the Met Office.
There is a possibility of high pressure building to the west of the UK as next week progresses, which will aid in bringing circumstances under control once more.
“We are not anticipating temperatures to rise as quickly as they did earlier this month and in July.” The high temperatures we experienced earlier in the year are unlikely to return.
Early indications suggest that conditions may be relatively calm throughout the upcoming bank holiday weekend due to the influence of high pressure.
Offshore winds, specifically an arctic maritime air mass that originates from the north of the UK, are predicted to bring the weather the next week.
This implies that the weather and temperatures will be entirely different from the previous blistering heatwaves experienced this summer, according to a representative for the Met Office.
They said that although forecasts are frequently inaccurate a week in advance, actual temperatures may be somewhat higher or lower, the Met Office is now calling for a high of around 26C for portions of the Bank Holiday Weekend.
Jim Dale, senior meteorologist at British Weather Services, predicts upper 20s for temperatures.
“As it appears from the models right now, temperatures around the bank holiday might be in the upper 20s and the extreme would be 30C degrees,” said Mr. Dale.
The extreme temperature could reach 30 degrees. “The southern sections might get 25 degrees, 26 degrees, 27 degrees, and the occasional 28 or 29 degrees.”
Many people will be relieved by the milder temperatures after last week’s blazing weather, which hit highs of 36C. A few weeks prior, London experienced the first occasion that the UK experienced a temperature above 40C.
With 35 million people expected to be subject to hosepipe prohibitions by the end of the month and 30.7 million formally experiencing drought, the warm, dry weather isn’t doing much to alleviate the effects of the driest summer since 1976.
A week ago, on August 12, the water governing organisation Ofwat predicted that 20 million people would be subject to a hosepipe restriction by the end of August.
This was before Thames Water revealed that an additional 15 million people would be impacted by a hosepipe restriction starting on August 24.
The National Drought Group (NDG) can implement extraordinary measures to restrict the UK’s water supply and attempt to safeguard animals when there is a drought.
The committee has the ability to put restrictions on how much water water firms may remove from rivers, undertake a “emergency fish rescue” in dry lakes and rivers, and even ration water in dire circumstances.
The UK has not experienced a drought since 2018; however, that one was quickly ended by heavy rain. Despite this week’s severe downpours and thunderstorms, much of southern England is not set to have considerable rainfall until September.
A drought cannot be defined in a single way or have a single set of requirements. The National Drought Group (NDG) instead considers forecasted temperatures, rainfall, water supply in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers.
They will sound the alarm and forecast the severity and duration of the drought if they determine that the variables have come together in a way that justifies a warning.
A drought’s duration is hard to forecast, but this one is anticipated to endure at least through October.
Britain may experience a prolonged drought since it takes weeks and months for reservoirs and underground groundwater to restock, even when rain begins to fall.