{"id":644845,"date":"2026-06-18T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644845\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:44:10","slug":"uk-weather-developing-heatwave-to-send-temperatures-above-30c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644845\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather: Developing heatwave to send temperatures above 30C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday temperatures are expected to rise to around 25-28C across the Midlands, East Anglia and south-east England, where there&#8217;ll also be some sunshine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere it will stay fairly cloudy with some rain, easing to showers, with temperatures around 17 to 24C, closer to the average for mid-June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be another bout of wet weather on Friday in Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern and western areas of England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will then turn drier and sunnier for all parts over the weekend with some light winds. Temperatures in these areas will rise a little over the coming days, they will remain at the modest level of 19 to 26C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heat across southern and eastern areas of England is expected to build further on Friday with temperatures of 27 to 31C expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While less hot on Saturday, by Sunday and Monday temperatures could return to the high twenties and up to 31 or even 32C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Monday there could be some big thunderstorms developing across England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the heat persisting into Tuesday across south-eastern areas, some locations may enter official heatwave conditions with temperatures above 27C or 28C for three consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heatwave threshold varies in each county, but it sits between 25C across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and parts of the south-west of England, and 28C in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday temperatures are expected to rise to around 25-28C across the Midlands, East Anglia and south-east England,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-644845","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\/644845","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=644845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}