{"id":709878,"date":"2026-07-25T02:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:51:08","slug":"uk-weather-heatwave-conditions-to-return-as-temperatures-to-peak-at-35c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709878\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Heatwave conditions to return as temperatures to peak at 35C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For most of England and Wales the third heatwave of the year ended last weekend when cooler air arrived, dropping maximum temperatures widely to 20-24C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, two locations &#8211; Usk and Exeter &#8211; have continued to just reach their heatwave criteria since then and have now reached 20 consecutive days &#8211; the longest run so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As temperatures drop further over the weekend, and parts of the UK see a little rain, even these local heatwaves are likely to come to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it may only be a temporary break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next week, high pressure is set to build close to the south of the UK meaning rain-bearing weather fronts will stall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Any wet weather will become confined to northern and western areas &#8211; especially north-west Scotland &#8211; and in southern parts of the UK temperatures look set to climb once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This could well mean a fourth heatwave is on the cards &#8211; although according to the Met Office isolated high temperatures might not be enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say that: &#8220;If only one or two stations reach heatwave criteria, that would not be defined as a heatwave.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most of England and Wales the third heatwave of the year ended last weekend when cooler air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709878","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\/709878","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=709878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}