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UK weather – Brits to bake through FOUR-WEEK scorcher with glorious 35C sunshine making Britain hotter than Cancun
BRITS are set to enjoy a four-week scorcher with highs of 35C sunshine.
The soaring temperatures will make the UK hotter than Cancun, Mexico, which is set to reach 29C on Saturday.
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Temperatures in the UK are expected to reach 30C before rising further throughout the month.
The Weather Outlook's Brian Gaze told : “The mid-30s are expected, but 35C or higher would not be a surprise (this month).
“Some forecast models show extreme heat.”
Highs of 24C are set to be reached tomorrow, with 25C on Wednesday and 28C on Friday.
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And bookies Coral has cut its odds to 5/4 on July being the UK's hottest month ever.
It would have to been July 2006, which had a 24-hour average of 17.8C and hit a peak of 36.2C.
A Met Office forecaster said: “After rain in the north and west, it turns warmer from Wednesday.
“High pressure is likely to dominate through the period to July 16, bringing dry and generally settled conditions.”
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The forecast also means families will be enjoying hot weather in time for the summer holidays.
Most schools in England and Wales will be splitting up for the summer holidays by July 22.
And experts are suggesting the heat may climb to 35C in time for this date.
The forecaster Brian Gaze said he wouldn’t be surprised if we got 35C, but the Met Office reckons it will be 30C.
Brian told The Sun: “At the moment long-range computer models are suggesting an increased likelihood of very warm conditions during the last third of July.
“With parts of southern Europe experiencing extreme heat during the early part of the summer there is the potential for the UK to import some of that if the pressure blocks across Europe and the North Atlantic fall into the right places.
“Temperatures in the UK reached 32.7C earlier this month and typically the hottest weather of the summer comes in July or August.
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“In recent years periods of extreme heat have become more common in the UK.
"I wouldn't be surprised if temperatures climbed to 35C (91F). To put a little context on that, the hottest day in the entire decade of the 1980s was 34.4C.”
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