Is there a heat wave on the way?

[bananaskin123]

Only asking because I saw something in the Daily Express whilst passing the paper stand in the supermarket. I know the DE is "weather conscious" but it would be great to have an indian summer.

Weather conscious? The Daily Express is weather nonsense.

Hopeful bump - @bananaskin123- This would be amazing! Someone more knowledgeable will hopefully be along soon ☀️

I bloody hope so. I was loving the hot summer and then it fell off a cliff. It did the same in 1976.

Hope not I’m sick to death of heat. I live in the SE and it’s been a fantastic summer but time to move on now.

Hope so. It'd be lovely to get another beach day in before the winter weather really starts. The summer was nice but so short compared to all the weeks of cold we're facing now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c8jp4dm2mv2o

Doesn’t look like it - just a slightly warm weekend

I like it to stay as warm as possible for as long as possible so that autumn/winter feels shorter

I’m the exact opposite - I adore autumn and winter. Summer started in spring so it can bugger off now

Oh if only there was a weather app to check?!!

When? Next couple of days there is a low pressure in the Atlantic which may mean that heat from southern France gets moved towards the UK but as the low gets closer that brings rain. So low 20’s this weekend, maybe mid 20 is possible in South East.

Longer term than that is hard to know.

Stick your head out the door and have a check! Don't forget to report back!

At this time of year the DE rotates in Indian Summer weather related headlines to mix it up from their staples of housing crash predictions and conspiracy theories about who killed Princess Diana. I wouldn’t read too much into it tbh.

Exactly it’s usually about now they start with the ‘worst winter in a century on its way expect to be snowed in for a month’ headline

Heatwave 🤣🤣🤣
if you’re in the UK, no way!
Its not even been that hot this summer!
Bring back weather from the 70’s when we literally had wall to wall summers for more than a month!!!

What you on about? It has been the hottest summer on record here in the UK.

I love it when people rely on anecdotes and rose tinted classes rather than actual scientific data to comment on the weather 😄🤦‍♀️

We’ve had that in the south east!

We’ve had it sunny in Devon, but it definitely wasn’t a heatwave, 30c is definitely not hot 🤣

Well it’s certainly hasn’t been hot this year!
I remember the summers we had back in the 70’s!!!
stand pipes due to water shortages!!

Well it’s definitely not been that hot 🤣🤣
Not like the summers from when I was a child, years ago summers lasted a lot longer than a month or so

Specially for you.

While my pic is under review...

Prof Richard Allan, climate scientist at the University of Reading, said:

“Sustained warmth with multiple short-lived, regional heatwaves in 2025 culminated in the warmest UK summer in the observational record, building on the extremely dry spring. Hotter summers are consistent with long term heating from rising greenhouse gases due to human activities, with an additional boost from declining unhealthy particle pollution that has allowed more of the previously scattered sunlight to bake the ground.

“It was a warmer summer even than the iconic 1976 though in contrast the heat of 2025 extended over a much wider area of western Europe and was accompanied by a record burned area from wildfire.

This video shows the outlier GFS run which models the jet stream going north and thus heat from Mediterranean coming up.

My feelings exactly.

Had to start watering my garden in March and the early, unexpected heat caused a few problems although these were nothing compared to the prolonged hot, dry weather we have had since then.

Bring on the autumnal rains and get nature back to something like normal.

It certainly didn’t feel like it where I live!
Not even set foot on the beach this year!!!