Enjoy the super heatwave while it lasts because Britain is just a few short weeks away from being pummelled by biblical rain.
Despite currently bathing in temperatures ranging from 25C to around 30C throughout this week, new satellite data shows that a storm is coming – and it’s going to be a big one.
According to WX Charts, the landing date of the rain deluge will be at around midday on Wednesday, July 5.
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The charts show that for the vast majority of the next 24-48 hours, almost all of the UK will be facing downpours, with parts of the South having to cope with around 3mm per hour, while the North and North West faces around 1mm per hour.
Scotland will be hit, too, but by less amounts of around 0.2 to 0.6mm, while Wales and Northern Ireland will be between one and 2mm depending on where you live.
The new data also tallies, in part, with the Met Office’s long-term forecast, as it predicts thunderstorms and “significant rainfall”. However, they do predict that the actual temperatures we’re experiencing won’t drop – despite the rain.
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They state: “Fresher conditions than earlier in the week with a westerly wind from the Atlantic, and changeable weather is most likely to prevail through much of this period; the hotter and more humid weather experienced by the south prior to this will most likely have been pushed away into the nearby Continent.
“The risk of these conditions lingering or returning to the far southeast now looks to be very small. This aside, northwestern areas are likely to see the most frequent rainfall, whilst southern and eastern areas remain drier, and a trend towards more generally settled weather for most of the United Kingdom through the period is probable.
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“Temperatures expected to be around to a little above average. Typical of the time of year, predictability at this range is very low compared with, say, the winter half of the year, thus forecast confidence is very low.”
They go on to explain that current indications suggest that a “continuation of the trend towards more settled weather through mid-July is weakly favoured,” and that we’ll experience below average rainfall and temperatures around to a little above average.
However, they add: “Any more significant rainfall would most likely be in the North West, and in thunderstorms elsewhere. There is a slightly higher than normal chance of heatwaves developing through this period.”
So get your brolly out, but keep your shorts on – it’s definitely going to be a look for the summer.
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