Met Office warns London rain will End Of Uk Heatwave after 35.1C
London’s end of uk heatwave is set to arrive with rain from Monday, after temperatures hit 35.1C at Kew Gardens, west London, on Monday. The Met Office says the capital will still have bright spells this weekend before a wetter spell begins and continues into next week.
Greg Dewhurst, a Met Office meteorologist, said next week will bring a change from the heatwave as temperatures fall closer to average. He said the capital could then see rain every day until at least next Friday, with temperatures falling to as low as 11C by the end of next week.
Greg Dewhurst on June weather
“It’s been quite a dry period of weather and hot period of weather, so it will be probably much needed and much welcome rain to gardeners and growers and farmers with the ground being so dry at the moment,” Dewhurst said. “So it is a change, but probably a welcome change for those who either don’t like the heat or want some rain.”
He also said there are good signs the heat will return later in June. “Particularly (during) the middle to second half of June, it looks like it starts settling down with higher pressure a bit more dominant again, so it’s an unsettled start to meteorological summer, but there are signs that it does settle down as the month goes on,” he said.
London before the rain
Before the rain reaches the capital, London is forecast to see a high of around 30C on Saturday and 24C on Sunday. Showers are expected to be most frequent and heaviest in northern and western areas of the country on Sunday, while June is set to begin with rain showers seen more widely, broken up by some brighter intervals.
The weather shift follows days of record-breaking heat across the UK. England and Wales recorded the hottest days in May on record on Tuesday, while Charlie Noble, 16, became the 12th person to die in a water-related incident over the course of the heatwave when his body was recovered in Stirlingshire, Scotland, on Thursday.
Heat records and next steps
For people in London, the immediate change is simple: the hot spell eases, then rain becomes part of the daily forecast from Monday. Gardeners, growers and farmers are the groups Dewhurst singled out as likely to notice the shift first, as dry ground gives way to a wetter start to June.
