London weather will be a scorcher as summer truly gets underway

The UK weather is finally giving us the summer we’ve been hoping for as a mini-heatwave sweeps the country.

London is set to see highs of 27°C today which will make a pleasant change from the dull and stormy weather we’ve seen so far throughout most of June and July.

The latest Met Office forecast brings good news for those on their summer holidays in the UK.

Even though Sunday morning is set to kick off with fog patches, they’re predicted to burn off early to leave us with a ‘fine day, with spells of prolonged sunshine’, the Met Office says.

The forecast for Greater London adds: ‘Feeling warmer than Saturday and more humid too. Light winds. Maximum temperature 27°C.’

Plus, that mini-heatwave is set to stick around into the beginning of next week – although forecasters warn this will result in some very humid weather, especially overnight.

A heatwave is declared in the UK when a location has at least three consecutive days when the daily maximum temperature meets or exceeds its heatwave temperature threshold.

The threshold varies by county, with the majority of the UK’s set at 25°C while London and southern and eastern areas have thresholds of 27°C or 28°C.

David Hayter, a deputy chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: ‘As we go through the weekend, the jet stream will weaken to the west of the UK generating an area of high pressure that will slowly move in across the UK.

‘High pressure means the air is sinking from higher in the atmosphere and that brings drier, settled and sunnier weather.

‘Temperatures will rise too, becoming widely above average. We could see maxima of 27°C in the south and 25°C in the northeast by Sunday.’

However London and the south east are predictably getting the best of the weather this weekend and early next week.

‘There’s a bit more in the way of patchy cloud in Northern Ireland, south and west Scotland and the northern isles, so temperatures will be lower there,’ David added.

And the heat seems unlikely to last for too long, with the Met Office predicting a potential breakdown from mid-week, with the possibility of thunderstorms.

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