View along the beach to where camping holidaymakers have set up tents under the crumbling cliff next to a rockfall at the seaside resort of West Bay. 1st June 2021. Picture Credit: Graham Hunt Photography. Britain could be on the brink of a mini-heatwave this weekend, with the mercury rising to nearly 25 degrees in Dorset. A spell of high pressure means most areas of the country will meet the Met Office’s definition of a heatwave – defined as three days above a particular temperature threshold. The sun is set to stick around for the rest of the month, with only north-western parts due a little wind and rain towards the end of next week.
“It is above 28C (82.4F) for London and large chunk of the south east, it is 27C (80.6F) for the Midlands and going towards the south west it s 26C (78.8F). “In Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall and the north east its 25C (77F) – so it is a sliding scale depending on where you are, but we haven’t yet met that maximum threshold.” The weekend is set to be a scorcher with the mercury potentially tipping 30C (86F) in parts of the South East by the beginning of next week.
A busy Weymouth beach Mr Claydon said: “But by the beginning of the weekend and going into next week we might start to meet that criteria, by Sunday we might see 28C (82.4F) or 29C (84.2F).