{"id":55964,"date":"2026-07-04T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-weather-temperatures-forecast-to-exceed-30c-as-another-heatwave-is-imminent\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:20:18","slug":"uk-weather-temperatures-forecast-to-exceed-30c-as-another-heatwave-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-weather-temperatures-forecast-to-exceed-30c-as-another-heatwave-is-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Temperatures forecast to exceed 30C as another heatwave is imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Temperatures in the south of the UK will continue to rise gradually over the weekend as high pressure builds from the Azores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will turn warmer still from Monday with the heat expected to peak during the second half of the week across England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some areas are likely to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/videos\/cm23mvn02j8o\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">official heatwave criteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highest temperatures will be focused across southern and eastern England, where values could widely exceed 30C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the north-east of England and eastern Scotland the mid to high-20s are possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Areas on the western side of the UK &#8211; such as Lancashire, the Lake District, western Scotland and Northern Ireland &#8211; will be exposed to an Atlantic breeze which will act like a natural air conditioner limiting temperatures to the low to mid-20s.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently many forecasting models show that the hot spell could persist into the middle of July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We are unlikely to exceed the record breaking temperatures recorded in June, although there is some uncertainty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/c621j44jwe1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in the south of the UK will continue to rise gradually over the weekend as high pressure builds from the Azores. It will turn warmer still from Monday with the heat expected to peak during the second half of the week across England and Wales. Some areas are likely to meet official heatwave criteria. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[10949,15825,1176,1643,12300,7864,864],"class_list":["post-55964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-30c","tag-exceed","tag-forecast","tag-heatwave","tag-imminent","tag-temperatures","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55966,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions\/55966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}