{"id":733219,"date":"2026-08-10T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:24:09","slug":"uk-weather-brief-relief-ahead-of-fifth-heatwave-as-more-areas-could-move-into-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733219\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Brief relief ahead of fifth heatwave – as more areas could move into drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of the country will feel some relief from the heat early in the week before temperatures spike again.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the air will feel a little fresher compared to the weekend with maximum temperatures in northern areas of the UK around 18 to 24C. <\/p>\n

Further south, while cooler than Sunday, it will still be a very warm day with temperatures between 22 to 27C.<\/p>\n

By Tuesday, warmer air will start to move back in across the UK with the highest temperatures across central southern England, the Midlands and east Wales.<\/p>\n

Yellow heat-health alerts remain in force for much of England until 21:00 BST on Tuesday, though they are likely to be extended or upgraded as the heatwave nears.<\/p>\n

Highs are likely to be around 27 to 30C.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will see temperatures widely across England and Wales head into the high twenties and low thirties. <\/p>\n

The peak of the extreme heat is set to arrive on Thursday, with temperatures reaching 36C (97F) in south-east England, and up to 35C likely across central and eastern England.<\/p>\n

This would mark the fourth consecutive month where 35C has been reached in the UK \u2013 a new record.<\/p>\n

Many locations will exceed their heatwave threshold of 25 to 28C<\/a> \u2013 dependent on location \u2013 for the first day.<\/p>\n

Some of the warmth will spread further north into northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with temperatures into the low to mid-20s Celsius.<\/p>\n

As heat builds throughout the week, overnight temperatures will stay relatively high bringing some uncomfortable nights for sleeping.<\/p>\n

Minimum temperatures may not go lower than 16 to 18C across England and Wales.<\/p>\n

There’s also a possibility of a ‘tropical night’ \u2013 where temperatures remain above 20C all night \u2013 in south-east England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much of the country will feel some relief from the heat early in the week before temperatures spike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733219","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\/733219","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=733219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}