{"id":734739,"date":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","slug":"uk-weather-summer-2026-on-course-to-be-hottest-on-record-says-met-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734739\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Summer 2026 on course to be hottest on record, says Met Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The remarkably warm and sunny summer has led to drought being declared in more than two-thirds of England and all of Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 45 million people are now living in a drought area in England, with more than 27 million facing water use restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no rain in the forecast through most of this week across England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forecasts for Sunday suggest there are some signs of rain coming into the UK from the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Low pressure bringing rain-bearing weather fronts will move in across Wales and southern England and could bring a spell of rain for some.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While this does not currently look to be particularly heavy or persistent, there could be the first bit of proper rain for many in nearly two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remarkably warm and sunny summer has led to drought being declared in more than two-thirds of England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734739","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\/734739","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=734739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}