{"id":594301,"date":"2026-05-20T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594301\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:39:09","slug":"uk-weather-temperatures-of-30c-possible-in-bank-holiday-weekend-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594301\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Temperatures of 30C possible in bank holiday weekend heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/articles\/c74n42pnzdvo?at_creation=%5B88721_PANUK_DIV_26_NEW_FutureEarth59_RET_COHORT%5D-20250624-%5Bbbcweather_whenisaheatwavereallyaheatwave_newsclimate%5D&amp;at_objective=conversion&amp;at_ptr_type=media\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heatwave <\/a>in the UK is defined by the Met Office as at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures exceeding a county-specific threshold, reflecting a sustained spell of unusually hot weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heatwave threshold temperature varies across the UK. In Greater London it is 28C whereas in Northern Ireland and Scotland it is 25C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is likely that a few places could meet the heatwave definition during Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At the moment, areas such as London and the south Midlands are most likely to see this.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the unseasonable warmth expected to continue into Tuesday and beyond, more parts of England and Wales could experience a heatwave after the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heatwave in the UK is defined by the Met Office as at least three consecutive days with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-594301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}