Temperatures will climb to a record-breaking 38C next week as a ‘heat dome’ is set to hit Britain, with the Met Office issuing a new four-day warning for extreme weather. The Mail has more.
Record highs of 38C – or more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit – have been forecast for Wednesday and Thursday by the national weather service – breaking June’s highest-ever recorded temperature of a blistering 35.6C in Southampton in 1976 and Camden Square in 1957.
In London, temperatures will rise to a scorching 38C across the two days, while Birmingham will see similar highs of 35C on Wednesday and 37C on Thursday.
Amber extreme heat warnings have been extended by the Met Office from Monday and Tuesday to include Wednesday and Thursday, covering much of southern England and Wales, the East and West Midlands, the South West and South East England, as well as the East of England.
The heat is expected to remain sweltering throughout next week as tropical nights have been predicted in areas where temperatures remain above 20C.
Dew points – indicative of the air’s humidity – are also forecast to be around 22C on Wednesday and Thursday, surpassing the record-breaking July 2022 heatwave, when they remained unusually low, mostly in the single figures, meaning the heat was oppressive.
The new alerts, issued on Sunday, have raised concerns about the potential health impacts for people vulnerable to extreme heat and heat-related issues for the wider population, as well as a possible increase in water safety incidents.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has released a separate heat health alert amid the soaring temperatures, which includes most of England from Monday morning until Friday night.
A UKHSA yellow heat alert is also in place for North East England during the same period.
Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster, Tom Crabtree, said the ongoing heatwave is “developing into an impactful severe weather event, with record breaking June temperatures and very high humidity”.
Mr Crabtree said: “The combination of heat and humidity will be oppressive and bring impacts across society from public health and infrastructure, to power and water supplies.
“As well as very high daytime temperatures, there will be consecutive nights where temperatures do not drop below 20°C, which is called a Tropical Night.
“This will make it very hard for people to recover from the daytime heat, exacerbating the heat stress impacts.”
The scorching temperatures will coincide with rising pollen levels across the country next week, with the Met Office predicting ‘very high’ counts from Sunday.
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I wonder how many of these scaremongering idiots will be flying off to European beaches to lie in scorching temperatures roasting their white flabby bodies having told us “We’re all doomed Captain Mainwaring we’re all doomed”? Silly b****rs!
Its called weather/summer, and given we have barely any reliable “recording stations”, I shall just enjoy it.
My corner of Surrey had a nice breeze all day which makes quite a difference if you are working up a sweat. On that legendary day a couple of years ago when I recorded just over 100 degrees on my patio there was also quite a breeze which meant if you had shade you could work quite nicely in the garden.
I walked across our common this evening on the way home. Clumps of people of various ages plonked on the grass in shorts and t shirts enjoying the warmth. A lovely sight. Hot dogs swimming in the river, kids getting ice cream from the van. I think we could cope with more of it.
“Temperatures will climb to a record-breaking 38C next week as a ‘heat dome’…”
As measured UK Met Office thermometers with Bunsen burners under them?
Note: thermometers in weathers stations are not scientific instruments, they are no more accurate than a wall thermostat on the living room.
UK Met Office temperatures are to be considered as having a margin of error of +/-5C.
July 2022 in Kent was hotter.
ISTR 40 degrees in London a few years ago.The electric trains stopped running due to powerlines sagging. I don’t know what record is being broken.
If the money spent on achieving net zero had been used to upgrade infrastructure (such as fitting self-tensioning systems for overhead power lines on the older electrified railway lines) we wouldn’t have that problem. Trains run in southern Europe in hot weather.
If a journalist wishes to go record-hunting, a good start is Australia. IIRC, the go-to is Oodnadatta. This is not a climate station. It is a thermometer in the car-park just behind The Pink Roadhouse. It featured a few years ago when the Australian Board of Meteorology and the broadcasting company invented a new colour (purple-black) to colour in Australia, and Oodnadatta was *forecast* as the highest temperature. IIRC, the temperature didn’t quite reach the forecast (although the Independent Newspaper was a bit vague about this) but people’s memory is of the purple-black colour, which now seems to be used on European/UK television screens, even if the actual numbers are barely different to fifty years ago.
The Net Zero, sorry, Met Office has now issued a Red extreme heat warming for southern England on Wednesday and Thursday. The explanatory text makes their agenda very clear:
That phrase “which up to now have been extremely rare” says it all. Just because it’s happening this year (after the last June record high back in 1976), that doesn’t stop it being extremely rare now. However, they’re determined to push their climate change agenda, which requires them to portray exceptional weather as the “new normal”.
Note, also, the reference to adapting daily routines. How long before the government orders services and facilities to shut down, and people to stay in their homes, to protect us?
1976 British Isles heatwave – Wikipedia [Chinese Year of the Fire Dragon]
“On 28 June, temperatures reached 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) in Southampton, the highest June temperature recorded in the UK. The hottest day of all was 3 July, with temperatures reaching 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) in Cheltenham.”
If there is any disruption it’s as likely to be caused by scaremongering warnings than by the actual weather. Self fulfilling.
It depends how you measure, of course. So much of our population live in urban heat areas they think what they feel and what the Met Office tells them is the truth about temperature.
People get off the underground sweating and think it is to do with unusual weather whereas it is the fact the carriages have no air flow, still less air con, and they have been standing in full sun, sealed, from sunrise. Then they travel through narrow tubes powered by relatively inefficient DC electric motors.
Yes, travelling to work & back in London on the Tube was unbearable in summer, but became even worse when they got rid of the old carriages where you could open the small upper windows for air flow, and replaced them with sealed windows and dodgy air conditioning that often broke down. I wonder whether the underground systems in other cities around the world are more pleasant for passengers.
The deep tunnel lines are still terrible, presumably the replacement trains due at some point will be better. The cut and cover trains are reasonably comfortable in warm weather- it’s just the zombie inconsiderate passengers that ruin the experience. I’m in central London as I write and I can’t see anyone collapsing yet.
Netweather is forecasting 41C for central London Thursday. 40C for outskirts. 38C for Brighton.
Stand by for Kew Gardens reporting 40.1c tomorrow or Wednesday
And Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Located in the leafy suburbs a century ago, they are now partially surrounded by high rise offices and general urbanisation. Also active airports and RAF airbases are a “good” source of records.
See the predicted pattern that is happening with the Looped Jet Stream preceding the next Ice Age? Remember the alternating phases of heat coming up from a Southern Loop, followed after 10-15 days by cold coming down from the next Northern Loop.
HH Lamb identified a jet stream containing Rossby Waves as connected to a solar minimum back in the 50s. The jet stream pattern changed around 2005 to bring long spells of Rossby Waves and also spells of when the wave pattern stalls often referred to as ‘blocking highs’. It has been known for the loops in the jet stream to actually go south of the equator and the loops can bring big swings in temperature from a warm south to a cold north in a day or less. One key factor when it comes to the forecasting ‘skills’ of the Met Office was the admission on TV that their models do not work for a looping jet stream, only a stable west to east pattern.
Wow— thanks for that fascinating snippet! I didn’t realize this was known so long ago. I also didn’t know that the southern loops could actually reach south of the equator!
I only started keeping track of the general UK weather patterns a few months ago, and they seemed to follow a 10-15 day pattern since then. But the possibility of such a change in only one day is quite alarming!
Yes, it dipped into the southern hemisphere a few years ago. I also recall Colorado going from nice and warm to freezing cold in less than 24 hours a while back as the winds changed direction. It has not been so stark here but there was quite a change in temperature last year all down to the arrival of north winds where the top of the loop is in the Arctic.
Can anyone point me toward any ‘official’ record of heatwaves in the UK?
We have weekly death registration data for England and Wales going back to January 2010. I’m curious about any mortality increase associated with warmer than usual weather.
To avoid complications from the shenanigans from 2020 I reckon the 2010-2019 records give pretty good baselines for the different age groups. Not too surprisingly the more elderly are worst affected by Winter conditions but so far I’ve been unable to spot any increase in mortality in Summer.
Reference to facts will get you banned if you keep repeating it. Besides, there is not a front bench MP who could read that chart and understand it.
Of course, they have people for that sort of thing.
Indeed, the so-called ‘experts’ and ‘scientists’ who are paid for having an opinion which suits the politics.
“Blistering”. Of course, because every time we go or holiday to Greece or Thailand we come back hospitalised with 3rd degree burns.
Exactly. Having been to the Middle East a number of times in my past employment I have enjoyed 45 degrees Celsius in the shade whilst wearing extra (heavy) kit and somehow lived to tell the tale. An infrared thermometer pointed at a vehicle bonnet revealed it to be at 68 Celsius. At 0930.
I can’t imagine how troops and firefighters burdened with heavy protective gear still keep going without passing out in such blazing heat, and I was glad that FIFA didn’t force the World Cup athletes to run around in that for 45 minutes at a stretch!!!
In some stadiums they would prefer to keep running because the aircon makes them so cold.
Being old and never having attended anything in a large stadium, I’m shocked to learn that some actually air-condition the whole thing! That’s good for the teams and the fans, but how can the Mad Ed Millibands of this world castigate Ethnic Europeans for “wasting energy” on heated towel rails, tumble dryers, wood-burning stoves and fireplaces?
Foreign holidays to warm places are very popular in the UK – almost as if many people preferred warmer weather. I suspect most would prefer mid 20s not mid 30s but that’s the thing about averages – to get to the average there will be outliers in both directions.
For all the media panic about the temperature, I bet many journos push off to summer holidays in such places. I note that humans have lived in such places for thousands of years and in many such places are more prosperous than us.
June’s highest-ever recorded temperature of a blistering 35.6C in Southampton in 1976…
Ah Summer 1976. Pottering around rural Buckinghamshire with my lovely wife riding pillion on our motorbike. Happy days.
So sad that Southampton was so much hotter that they couldn’t enjoy their weather… if you believe it.
38 is a fair bit more than I ideally like, but the bonus is that it’s very pleasant to sit outside in the early morning and late evening, which isn’t usually the case on a “normal” warm summer day in the UK.
We should also bear in mind that 38 is for a heaving metropolis, and that people in more rural areas will not see anything like that, generally. We should also bear in mind that people living in cooler parts of the UK will not see anything like 38 and will be glad for once to see some sunshine and feel the warmth.
The peak temperature will be at Kew Gardens or Heathrow Airport as usual and totally detached from reality or what the majority of the country will actually experience.
I also predict higher than normal temperature readings at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, just a hunch, a wild guess!
Or behind jets waiting to take off at LHR.
Didn’t they just announce (last week) the start of the possibly “biggest ever” El Nino, which would predict such weather events, and undermine their spurious and ridiculous Climate claims?
Three weeks ago I was in the glorious Peak district, getting soaked every day and wrapped to keep warm – then, not a peep from the usual doomsters about wettest eva or coldest eva June weather!
Except the “biggest ever” El Niño is of course caused by… climate change.
And… Meteorological studies of El Niño did not start until the 1920s and 1930s, but they have been around for centuries, so “biggest ever” depends on where you take the start point.
It was the usual suspects claiming the “biggest ever” without any evidence or context, as usual.
But the ‘settled scientists’ have no idea what causes ENSO be it El Nino or La Nina.