A TINY village has recorded the highest consecutive temperatures making in the only place in the country where a heatwave has been declared.
The UK recorded its highest temperature since the end of July as the country basks in some early autumn sun.
Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said Wiggonholt near Pulborough, has already met the heatwave thresholds, with recordings of 27.1C on Sunday, 28.6C on Monday and 28.5C on Tuesday.
Temperatures have reached 30.7 Celsius at Gogerddan, Wales đĄď¸ (highest temperature recorded today) âď¸
â Met Office (@metoffice) September 7, 2021
This will be the 7th time in the month of #September that temperatures have reached in excess of 30 Celsius in the UK in the last 50 years pic.twitter.com/NDXGWc8BKI
A location meets the UK heatwave threshold when it records a period of at least three consecutive days of daily maximum temperature levels meeting or exceeding thresholds which vary across the country.
Marco said the hot weather was ânot that unusualâ for the first half of September, but it would be âmore unusualâ for it to occur later in the month.
He said if a temperature of more than 28.1C was recorded in Scotland on Wednesday, it would be Scotlandâs hottest September day since 1906.
There was a 30 per cent to 40 per cent chance of this happening, Marco said.
Elsewhere in the UK, the mercury reached 30.7C at Gogerddan, in Dyfed, Wales, on Tuesday, the Met Office said.
It is the highest temperature since the 31.2 C recorded at the same location on July 22 this year.
Temperatures reached 30.4C at Northolt in west London, 30.3C at Pershore in Worcestershire and 30.2C at Heathrow, west London, and at Santon Downham in Suffolk.
A southerly air flow from off the near continent is currently bringing the very warm conditions across the UK đĄď¸
â Met Office (@metoffice) September 7, 2021
Low pressure and associated fronts moving in from the southwest will bring cooler and fresher conditions by Friday, with heavy showers and thunderstorms âď¸â ď¸ pic.twitter.com/6taTxLpSNb
The Met Office said that the recordings meant it was only the seventh time temperatures have exceeded 30C in September in the last 50 years.
Four of the previous instances came within the last 15 years â 2006, 2013, 2016, 2020 â with the other occasions in 1999 and 1973.
The warmest UK September day on record was on September 2 1906 when 35.6C was recorded at Bawtry, South Yorkshire.
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The hot conditions have come after the official end of summer, from a meteorological point of view, which is considered to be August 31.
Tuesdayâs temperatures mean that, with dry and fine conditions expected for some spots on Wednesday, official heatwave thresholds were likely to be reached in parts of eastern England this week.
The Met Office earlier tweeted that a âsoutherly air flow from off the near continentâ is bringing the warm conditions across the UK.
But it explained that âlow pressure and associated fronts moving in from the south westâ will bring âcooler and fresher conditionsâ by Friday, with heavy showers and thunderstorms possible.
Forecasters have issued three yellow weather warnings that thunderstorms could strike parts of the country on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Met Office said many areas will avoid the worst of the showers, but âthundery downpoursâ could bring 30mm and 50mm of rainfall in less than three hours in some places.
Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Harris said: âThe hot and clear weather currently being experienced across large parts of the UK is forecast to break down through the middle of the week as showers and thunderstorms arrive.
âThese will initially affect the southwest of the UK on Wednesday, before moving steadily north and developing across most areas through Thursday and Friday.â
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