Bank Holiday Special – Could we break more temperature records this weekend?
How hot will it get this weekend and could it be the warmest late August Bank Holiday on record? Alex Deakin looks at the hot air rising at the end of this week.
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00:00It's been quite a wet August so far but the warmth is set to return this weekend
00:04which is a bank holiday for many. We're not talking about the extreme heat of
00:08July but in some places particularly with reference to the bank holiday
00:13weekend in August it could be record-breaking. So what's going on? We've
00:17got high pressure dominating across northern Europe that's building over the
00:20next few days and by the weekend with low pressure to the west of the UK the
00:25winds will be wafting up warmer air from France and from Spain. Let's take a look
00:30at that warmer air drifting northwards over the next few days. It really starts
00:34through Friday but pushes northwards during the course of Saturday and many
00:38places seeing those orange colours spreading in through Sunday and probably
00:43lasting into Monday too. Now for most places we'll just notice a jump in
00:47temperatures back to around or a little bit above average but for some places
00:51well temperatures really will be rocketing and potentially over 30
00:55degrees Celsius. Let's take a closer look then at some of the temperatures we're
00:59expecting this weekend. Initially on Saturday I think we'll see temperatures
01:03across northern Britain into the low 20s but further south into the mid even
01:08high 20s and 30 degrees is possible. If we fast forward to Sunday well those
01:13temperatures jump a bit higher across parts of eastern England in particular
01:16that's where we're likely to see the top temperatures getting up to maybe in some
01:20spots the low 30s. As you can see that many places will be more comfortable
01:24than that into the mid 20s and then for Monday itself well temperatures could
01:29peak at maybe 33 Celsius again somewhere across maybe these Midlands down
01:33across East Anglia and the southeast. For many places elsewhere we're nothing
01:38like that high but it will still be noticeably warmer and more humid than it
01:43has been. Now although we're not going to see these kind of temperatures into the
01:46low 30s everywhere it would still be pretty unusual if we do see them through the
01:51course of this weekend. If we compare to other Bank holiday weekends of the past
01:55the maximum temperatures most likely headline figures for this weekend could
01:59be 30 degrees on Saturday maybe 32 on Sunday 33 on Monday and they could be
02:04record-breaking because the late August Bank holiday records going back to the
02:09mid 60s show that for the weekend as a whole we've only recorded 31.5 before
02:14and for the Monday only 28.2 Celsius so there's a good chance that some records
02:18could be broken this weekend. Now there's still some uncertainty it's still a few
02:23days ahead we're not talking gloriously sunny weather everywhere there's still
02:26the chance of a few showers this weekend but for many it will be quite a lot
02:30warmer and a lot drier than it has been. Make sure you stay up to date with the
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