U.K. may at last get a brief glimpse of summer
The United Kingdom is in danger of actually getting some decent summer weather at last, if only for the next few days. The Met Office recently tried to worm its way out of its disastrous prediction earlier this year that the U.K. was set for a barbecue summer by saying that at least it got the temperatures right. And it did. However, although it correctly said that the country would experience three months of higher than average temperatures it failed to forecast almost constant rain, with July being the wettest for the last 100 years.
Get those barbecues out now as temperatures are set to hit an unseasonable high with parts of the U.K. reaching 22C when the sun is shining. The autumn is officially upon us and the good weather is unlikely to last beyond the end of the week. A high pressure system is now sitting on the U.K. which means that the country is in for some dry weather, especially in the south-east and the north-east where the sun will come out and any wind should be light.
A forecaster with MeteoGroup UK, Helen Rossington said that unfortunately Scotland won’t be quite as lucky with the possibility of some wet and windy weather on its way. She also warned that trying to predict what the weather will do more than five days in advance rather unreliable. So out with the tongs and the charcoal briquettes, because this might just be the last chance to salvage a few of those barbeque moments the Met Office so mistakenly promised us.