{"id":81477,"date":"2026-05-13T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:47:12","slug":"london-colder-than-helsinki-as-hailstorm-sweeps-capital-but-a-mini-heatwave-coming-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81477\/","title":{"rendered":"London colder than Helsinki as hailstorm sweeps capital&#8230;but a mini-heatwave coming next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Evening Standard;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Evening Standard\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"198\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-11\/6bcd7400-9acb-11ef-8fff-0f38cb4c29b2.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Wed, 13 May 2026 at 10:35 am UTC<img alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria Starmer leave number 10 Downing Stree for the State Opening of Parliament (PA)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"732\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_uk_evening_standard_737\/8f165111e95a491bf8c825e06d48f7bf.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria Starmer leave number 10 Downing Stree for the State Opening of Parliament (PA)<\/p>\n<p>A hailstorm swept <a data-ylk=\"slk:London;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/london\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> on Wednesday morning as temperatures plunged in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Londoners shared video of the <a data-ylk=\"slk:hail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/hail\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">hail<\/a> pounding pavements and gardens. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Lady Victoria, were even caught in it as they made their way from 10 Downing Street to the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Met Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/met-office\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Met Office<\/a>, temperatures were set to hover around 12C throughout much of the day.<\/p>\n<p>That will make London colder than cities north of the capital, such as Finland\u2019s capital <a data-ylk=\"slk:Helsinki;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/helsinki\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Helsinki<\/a>, where the Met Office predicts a high of 17C on Wednesday, and Norwegian capital Oslo, where 15C is forecast.<\/p>\n<p>It will remain cold in London for the rest of the week with a high of 14C predicted on Thursday and 15C on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But it looks like it\u2019s going to get a lot warmer next week.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Weather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/bbc-weather\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Weather<\/a> is reporting highs of 24C from Thursday, May 21, to Saturday, May, 23, with temperatures staying above 20C into the following week, which is May half-term for many London schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, 13 May 2026 at 10:35 am UTC Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria Starmer leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[43317,158,113,43315,114,43314,18707,43313,43316],"class_list":{"0":"post-81477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-helsinki","8":"tag-10-downing-street","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-helsinki","11":"tag-lady-victoria","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-met-office","14":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","15":"tag-south-london","16":"tag-state-opening-of-parliament"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116566874237085957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}