\n Persistent downpours are forecast for the final weekend of meteorological summer, following a deluge on Friday that saw some areas receive more than half a month\u2019s worth of rain in just 11 hours.\n<\/p>\n
\n The unsettled conditions are expected to continue through Sunday and into next week, with longer spells of rain, scattered showers, strong winds, and the risk of thunder in parts of the country. Temperatures will be near average.\n<\/p>\n
\n In\u00a0London, temperatures will peak at 21C on Saturday, with sunny intervals giving way to cloud by lunchtime.\n<\/p>\n
\n Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said eastern parts of England are likely to see some sunshine early on Saturday, but a frontal system moving in from the west will bring heavy rain and strong winds later in the day.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s also worth highlighting that there could be some thunder mixed in with this wet weather and it\u2019s also going to add to a slightly fresher feel to things,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Met Office reported that this summer would \u201calmost certainly\u201d be the UK\u2019s warmest on record as the mean average temperature for the season stood at 16.13C, based on data up to August 28.\n<\/p>\n
\n If this season is confirmed as setting a new high for average temperature, it will mean all of the UK\u2019s top five warmest summers will have occurred since the year 2000.\n<\/p>\n
\n The top five are currently 2018 (15.76C), 2006 (15.75C), 2003 (15.74C), 2022 (15.71C) and 1976 (15.70C).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistent downpours are forecast for the final weekend of meteorological summer, following a deluge on Friday that saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-386737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115122147306353837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386737","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=386737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}