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<\/p>\nTorrential rain, thunder, lightning and hail will give way to a two-week blast of glorious summer sunshine.<\/p>\n
Britons are about to bake in a barbecue fortnight as a warmth sweeps in from the tropical Azores.<\/p>\n
A high-pressure heat dome will settle over the UK next week and is likely to stay wedged in place until the summer solstice.<\/p>\n
Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: \u201cFor the next two weeks, the favoured scenario is higher pressure towards the UK.<\/p>\n
Torrential rain, thunder, lightning and hail will give way to a two-week blast of glorious summer sunshine<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf we go to Thursday, the high pressure to the south is likely to occasionally cover much of the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most likely pattern is high pressure ridging across the south, keeping weather systems to the north, but mostly these are weak systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are expecting the high pressure to ebb and flow across the UK throughout next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glorious weather will follow an explosive weekend as a barrage of thunderstorms ploughs in from France.<\/p>\n
After what is expected to nudge the hottest day of the year so far today, rising humidity will ignite a powder keg.<\/p>\n
Met Office warnings are in force tonight and through tomorrow for powerful storms loaded with inches of rain.<\/p>\n
Fireworks will kick off later this afternoon, McGivern warned, with the southeast in the firing line for the worst of the weather.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt is late afternoon that we start to see the first signs of these imported thunderstorms coming up through the channel.<\/p>\n
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A high-pressure heat dome will settle over the UK next week and is likely to stay wedged in place until the summer solstice<\/p>\n
WXCHARTS<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks most likely that the southeastern quarter of the UK where we will see the biggest impact of these thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are talking torrential rainfall, hail, gusty winds and frequent lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n
But rain-weary Britons will have just another 24 hours of hell to endure before summer finally arrives in style.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHigh pressure builds to the south of the UK and shifts the jet stream further north, and that sets the scene for next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cHigh pressure near the Azores extends its influence towards the UK, shifting weather systems further north, this is the most likely weather pattern.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor much of the UK, it is drier, and it is more settled.\u201d<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s weather over the past few days has been shaken by an explosive mix of heat, humidity and low pressure.<\/p>\n
Steered in by an unusually southerly jet stream, Atlantic lows have fuelled torrential downpours.<\/p>\n
The jet will move northwards through the weekend, allowing high pressure to build from the tropical Azores Islands.<\/p>\n
It was a so-called \u2018Azores High\u2019 that drove Britain\u2019s hottest ever temperature of 40.3C in July 2022.<\/p>\n
While temperatures over the next fortnight are expected to come nowhere near, fine, settled summer weather is on the cards.<\/p>\n
Jim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services and social commentator, said: \u201cFrom the weekend we should see more settled weather, with temperatures possibly in the high 20Cs or even Sunday as high pressure becomes dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Nicholls, lead international forecaster for AccuWeather, added: \u201cWhile we can\u2019t rule out isolated showers in parts of the country, this weekend is looking drier and brighter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrential rain, thunder, lightning and hail will give way to a two-week blast of glorious summer sunshine. Britons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-180711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales","18":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114675312743381382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}