The hot weather peaks across many parts of the country today as a hot and sultry feed of air from the near continent brings the opportunity for some exceptional temperatures to be recorded with records potentially coming under threat. If you are out and about today then we urge you to stay hydrated and to keep out of the sun between 11am and 4pm.
Early mist patches are now clearing and for much of the UK it will be a sunny day with temperatures rising quickly in the sunshine. Some cloud will bubble up during the course of the day, potentially triggering some isolated thunderstorms late on, and it is the amount of cloud cover that will likely determine the maximum temperatures. Widely highs will be in the range of a remarkable 32°C to 36°C across many parts of England, but if the sunshine lasts across parts of central, eastern and south-eastern England then values could be warmer still putting the UK July maximum temperature record (36.7°C) and the all-time UK record high temperature record (38.5°C) under threat. The exception to the extremely hot weather will come out towards the west where there will be more in the way of cloud and wind across Ireland, Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland, this cloud bringing some showers at times and keeping temperatures nearer to the low twenties at best, but for central and eastern Scotland it will be bright and very warm with highs here in the mid-high twenties.
Thunderstorms are expected to break out more widely as we head into this evening and overnight with some potentially severe storms developing in places but there's low confidence over exactly where the storms will break out. It will be another very warm and humid night for many, but somewhat fresher conditions will move into western areas. This fresher air continues to push slowly eastwards tomorrow, but the extreme east of England could see another very warm day with some sunny spells. In-between these differing air masses will be a band of cloud bringing some showery outbreaks of rain at times, some of which could be heavy and thundery.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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