High pressure is expected to dominate throughout this weekend and into next week. If highs of 30C are met, it will be the hottest temperature recorded since early July.
Southern parts can expect the highest temperatures, perhaps reaching 30C around the middle of the week, Ms Robinson said, which would be the warmest temperature recorded since early July when 30.2C was felt in Chertsey.Ms Robinson said:"It will also be warm at night.
An official heatwave is"when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold", according to the Met Office. This threshold varies by each UK county., was provisionally Britain's eighth-warmest summer since 1884.But the Met Office noted it was a summer of mixed conditions, with it also being wetter than on average.
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