South to sizzle in 22C sunshine TODAY… But the north is set for storms and downpours
The north-south divide will continue all week
FIRST the country was divided by Brexit – now the north and south are split over the weather this week as thundery showers batter Scotland, while England and Wales enjoys warm sunny spells.
After a cloudy start, and light rain for some, the sun will break through in the south to help temperatures reach 22c this morning.
Time to get your sunglasses out… it’s going to be sunny in England and Wales for most of the week
The sizzling start to Tuesday is sure to put smiles on a few faces but it’s a completely different story for those up north.
Further showers are expected across Scotland, and even parts of the east coast of England, which will be heavy at times.
There is also a risk of thunder in the north for most of the day, but the scattered showers will steadily ease.
Elsewhere tonight, skies will clear meaning there will be a noticeable change in temperature as it dips lower than usual.
Tomorrow will be a cloudy start for Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, with rain expected later in the day.
Meanwhile, England will wake up to near unbroken sunshine – although it will cloud over later.
For the rest of the week expect it to be dry and warm with hazy sunshine in the south, but cloud lingering at times.
The hot weather set to spoil the south won’t be the last this month as bookies slash the odds that July will be record-breaker.
As the sunshine makes it’s long and overdue reappearance Ladbrookes have trimmed the odds into just 2/1 (from 4/1) that July 2016 is the warmest ever following sustained support from weather watchers across the country.
It’s also odds-on at 1/5 the hottest day of the year is set before the clock strikes midnight on July 31.
Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: “The sun’s finally shining and the balmy temperatures means punters have part ways with their cash on it sticking around for July to enter the record books.”
Ladbrokes latest betting
July 2016 to be the warmest July on record 2/1
July 2016 to set the hottest day of the year record 1/5
But for the rest of the week in Scotland it’s going to continue to be more unsettled with rain or showers most days – with strong winds forecast for Saturday.
Alex Burkill from the Met Office said: “Throughout today and tomorrow there will be sunshine in the south east but the weather is looking extremely unsettled in the north.”
The Met Office needs YOUR help to predict the weather
Amateur weather watchers are ugrently needed by the Met Office to install miniature meteorological stations in their gardens to help give better forecasts.
Although the national weather service can provide 16,000 trillion calculations a second, it needs more data.
So the Met office wants the public to buy small meteorological stations for about £60, which can sense temperature, humidity, rainfall and pressure.
It uploads its results to a computer or directly to the Met Office’s Weather Observation Website (Wow).
Simon Partridge, a Met Office forecaster, said: “We are lucky the UK is a country where a lot of people are very interested in the weather – so they should be on our side to get as much data as possible.
“It’s a similar scheme as to weather watchers on the BBC, but we get data rather than just photographs.
“The better data you put in, the better data you get out.”
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