Summer isn’t over yet as temperatures set to hit a balmy 28C next week

Visitors to West Bay beach on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast enjoy what could be the last sunshine of the summer holidays before the schools go back (Picture: Tom Corban/Shutterstock)

Don’t pull out the woolies just yet as it seems we’re in for a final blast of summer next week.

Temperatures are forecast to reach 26C in some parts of the country on Sunday, especially the south-east, rising to 27C on Monday before hitting a balmy 28C Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday should see similar temperatures, before it drops slightly to 27C on Saturday, then 24C on Sunday.

Outside of the southeast the temperature is forecast to be two to four degrees lower, with a high of 26C predicted for Manchester and Cardiff, 24C for Leeds, 23C for Newcastle and 22C for Edinburgh.

It’s set to be dry and sunny, with some cloud, across most of the UK from Sunday to Friday, with a chance of rain next weekend.

Hurricane Franklin, currently raging over the Atlantic, is helping to push high pressure and unseasonably warm conditions towards the UK, said the Met Office.

Last month it predicted September – which sees average temperatures in the late teens – could be warmer and dryer than usual due to tropical storms.

People enjoying the warm weather in Potters Fields Park in London (Picture: PA)

People sunbathing in Green Park, central London (Picture: PA)

The news has been welcomed by Brits who experienced one of the wettest Julys on record and a less than impressive August.

One person called Rosie posted a screen shot of next week’s temperatures in London on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote: ‘SUMMER IS THAT YOU?!’

While Jason King posted: ‘Summer can finally begin #heatwave’.

If the weather plays out as forecast, it could be well be a heatwave for some areas.

According to the Met Office, for a weather event to count as a heatwave there must be temperatures of 25C or higher for three days or more, with that threshold rising to 28C or more in warmer regions including the south-east of England.

People paddle board in the sea off of Bournemouth beach in Dorset (Picture: PA)

Grahame Madge, Met Office spokesman, said: ‘Because of the energy, heat, and moisture that tropical storms contain, they are significant disruptors of the North Atlantic atmosphere.

‘Hurricane Franklin is pushing high pressure our way. We are likely to see heatwave conditions in some of the UK.

‘We are expecting 26 or 27C, possibly 28C with scope for higher temperatures.

‘By and large, most people will be in for a fine and sunny week possibly edging into next weekend.

‘The clarity of the breakdown of these weather events is uncertain because of the impact of tropical cyclones.’

Tomorrow temperatures will reach around 23C in the southeast and 21-22C further north, with a chance of some rain.

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