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Londoners are enjoying some relief from this summer\u2019s punishing heatwave temperatures.<\/p>\n
Last week\u2019s searing heat saw 38.1C recorded at Kew Gardens on Thursday – the hottest UK temperature of the year, followed by a high of 34C on Friday.<\/p>\n
Temperature highs of 26C were observed in London on Saturday and Sunday, with similar levels of heat expected on Monday and Tuesday, according to the Met Office. <\/p>\n
More than 70 per cent of the country is now in drought<\/a> following a record dry July, and an August that has so far seen just 5 per cent of expected rainfall.<\/p>\n London\u2019s parks have been turned into \u201ctinderbox\u201d parched lands where wildfires<\/a> can easily spread.<\/p>\n Sir Sadiq Khan has urged Londoners to create fire breaks in their gardens to protect their homes, while the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has also warned of the dangers that major blazes could start in people\u2019s gardens.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Andy Burnham <\/a>has urged retailers to withdraw disposable barbecues from sale in an effort to prevent wildfires as he warned extreme heat conditions \u201ccould be with us for some weeks yet\u201d.<\/p>\n More than 1,000 wildfires have been recorded in England and Wales this year, according to data shared by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), the same as last year\u2019s record-breaking total. <\/p>\n Huge fires caused \u201capocalyptic scenes\u201d in the West Midlands<\/a> on Thursday, with a blaze a fire in Stourbridge<\/a> leading to a child and three firefighters being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n West Midlands Fire Service said 19 houses have been fully destroyed and 18 damaged by the blaze, and the incident is estimated to involve about 40 acres of land, including a wood. <\/p>\n As temperatures ease this weekend, we ask: Was this week\u2019s heatwave that last of an especially hot summer? Or is more boiling weather around the corner?<\/p>\n Will there be another heatwave in London this year?<\/p>\n According to the Met Office, highs of 26C are expected on Monday and Tuesday before cooler conditions sweep the capital, with maximum temperatures dropping to 20C this weekend. <\/p>\n A heatwave in London is defined as at least three days of 28C or higher.<\/p>\n So it looks like there will be no immediate return to heatwave conditions in the capital. <\/p>\n A person uses a portable fan on an underground train in central London<\/p>\n AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n The Met Office\u2019s long-range forecast does hold out the possibility of more heatwaves in London. <\/p>\n The forecast for the period August 31 -September 15 says there is likely to be a northwest\/southeast split.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a chance that late season hot spells or heatwaves develop, especially in the south,\u201d it says. <\/p>\n So while the extremely high temperatures are over for now, there is a chance London will see a sixth heatwave in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Londoners are enjoying some relief from this summer\u2019s punishing heatwave temperatures. Last week\u2019s searing heat saw 38.1C recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[38658,4832,27,257,23971,9781,24848],"class_list":["post-105009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-drought","tag-heatwave","tag-london","tag-met-office","tag-record","tag-warning","tag-wildfires"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117110322320481717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"<p>A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786961606_197_2282555989...jpeg\")
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