Upcoming ‘extreme heat’ could ‘literally smash temperature records’ and surge to the upper 30s, despite forecasts of an Artic chill.
According to the experts UK Weather Forecast, it won’t just be wind, rain and a drop in temperatures – we’re going to be getting some frost in the coming days. We reported earlier this week how UKWF expert Lewis said: “Cooler conditions move in from the north with a north to north-westerly flow developing.
“Even a ground frost is possible in rural northern areas later in the working week!” The claims concur with the official Met Office predictions, which claim that temperatures are set to plunged from yesterday and will last until Saturday as a 700-mile wide polar air mass blows in.
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The Met Office also warned of snow flurries in Scotland amid cold air, with daytime highs of just 12C in northern parts and nights as low as 2C. WX Charts maps also showed an incoming -5 Arctic blast.
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However, these predictions have rattled James Madden at Exacta Weather who says that 10 top computer models point to heat records actually being smashed in this period.
Taking to Facebook, he said this morning (September 12): “Let’s put the upcoming and imminent very HOT weather and EXTREME heat for the UK and Ireland in perspective for everyone…”
He named 10 computer model charts that “ALL show some very hot to extreme heat for in and around September 18 for the UK and Ireland “over several days at the very least, possibly a day or two earlier.
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Madden continued: “That is TEN out of TEN computer models in excellent cross-model agreement guys (totally different to all the other heat surges to date), and it is therefore absolutely beyond me and also baffles me when I do a forced check of the BBC and MO weather apps to see temperatures no higher than 19-20°C for my own location in Lancashire and 21-22°C for London for these dates (I have taken screenshots again) in something that is now literally days away from development.”
Madden then claimed that we would “at least” be experiencing scorching temps in the 30s.
He said: “At the very least we are going to be seeing temperatures in the low to mid 30s at times around these dates at the less extreme end of the scale (north and south), but the more extreme end could literally smash temperature records and see temperatures in the high 30s developing at the very least due to the origin of this major high pressure build.
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“I currently sit somewhere in the middle and, if anything, a little more to the extreme side of the scale on my own forecast projections for this period, and that excellent cross-model agreement across ALL models only solidifies these projections even more.”
But the new long-term Met Office forecast shows that winter truly is coming.
Looking at the period of Friday, September 13 to Sunday, September 22, they claim: “Many areas will be dry at first under a ridge of high pressure, although an increasing chance of cloud, rain and strengthening winds in at least northwestern areas by and during the weekend, with the best of any lengthy drier and brighter spells in southern and eastern parts.
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“After a cool start to the period, temperatures will recover during the weekend as a westerly flow becomes established.
“While confidence is low, by the middle of next week there are signs that high pressure may become increasingly influential on the weather across the UK, and potentially becoming rather warm in places.
“That said, some rain or showers are still possible, more especially in the south and/or far north west.”
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