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Bank Holiday Special – Could we break more temperature records this weekend?
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14/10/2024
How hot will it get this weekend and could it be the warmest late August Bank Holiday on record? Alex Deakin looks at the hot air rising at the end of this week.
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It's been quite a wet August so far but the warmth is set to return this weekend
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which is a bank holiday for many. We're not talking about the extreme heat of
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July but in some places particularly with reference to the bank holiday
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weekend in August it could be record-breaking. So what's going on? We've
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got high pressure dominating across northern Europe that's building over the
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next few days and by the weekend with low pressure to the west of the UK the
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winds will be wafting up warmer air from France and from Spain. Let's take a look
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at that warmer air drifting northwards over the next few days. It really starts
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through Friday but pushes northwards during the course of Saturday and many
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places seeing those orange colours spreading in through Sunday and probably
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lasting into Monday too. Now for most places we'll just notice a jump in
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temperatures back to around or a little bit above average but for some places
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well temperatures really will be rocketing and potentially over 30
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degrees Celsius. Let's take a closer look then at some of the temperatures we're
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expecting this weekend. Initially on Saturday I think we'll see temperatures
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across northern Britain into the low 20s but further south into the mid even
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high 20s and 30 degrees is possible. If we fast forward to Sunday well those
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temperatures jump a bit higher across parts of eastern England in particular
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that's where we're likely to see the top temperatures getting up to maybe in some
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spots the low 30s. As you can see that many places will be more comfortable
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than that into the mid 20s and then for Monday itself well temperatures could
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peak at maybe 33 Celsius again somewhere across maybe these Midlands down
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across East Anglia and the southeast. For many places elsewhere we're nothing
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like that high but it will still be noticeably warmer and more humid than it
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has been. Now although we're not going to see these kind of temperatures into the
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low 30s everywhere it would still be pretty unusual if we do see them through the
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course of this weekend. If we compare to other Bank holiday weekends of the past
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the maximum temperatures most likely headline figures for this weekend could
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be 30 degrees on Saturday maybe 32 on Sunday 33 on Monday and they could be
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record-breaking because the late August Bank holiday records going back to the
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mid 60s show that for the weekend as a whole we've only recorded 31.5 before
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and for the Monday only 28.2 Celsius so there's a good chance that some records
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could be broken this weekend. Now there's still some uncertainty it's still a few
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days ahead we're not talking gloriously sunny weather everywhere there's still
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the chance of a few showers this weekend but for many it will be quite a lot
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warmer and a lot drier than it has been. Make sure you stay up to date with the
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very latest from the Met Office by following us on social media.
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