weather<\/a> could cause minor disruption to health and social care services through to Wednesday.<\/p>\nHow long is the heatwave forecast to last?<\/p>\n
Following the expected heatwave on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, temperatures were expected to begin to drop on Tuesday. The Met Office are now predicting that Tuesday will also see peaks of over 30C in some regions.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the highest temperatures are forecast to be in the South West and South Wales, hitting 27C in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Deputy chief forecaster Greg Wolverson said: \u201cA very warm period of weather will develop through the weekend and into next week for much of the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cHigh pressure will be in charge of the UK\u2019s weather over the bank holiday weekend and this should bring fine and settled conditions to most areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe exception will be parts of northwestern Scotland, where it will be cooler and cloudier with some rain at times. There is also a small risk of some thunder in the south late on Friday into Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what the Met Office has forecast over the weekend:<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
A largely sunny day across England and Wales with some low cloud potentially affecting western coasts. Cloudier across Scotland and Northern Ireland with some occasional rain but also sunny spells. Feeling warm for most and hot towards the southeast.<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
A largely sunny day, although northwest Scotland, Northern Ireland and some western coasts elsewhere often cloudier with some patchy drizzle. Another very warm day for most.<\/p>\n
Sunday to Tuesday<\/p>\n
Dry and settled with plenty of sunshine, although the far northwest cloudier, with some rain at times. Feeling very warm or hot by day with potentially warm nights too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601274","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=601274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Temperatures are forecast to reach 33C in southern England and the Midlands on Monday (Getty)<\/p>\n