UK weather: Britain set for three months of hot temperatures with 'warmer than average' summer

July looks poised to bring mercury the most out of kilter, with temperatures potentially 2C above the average.

NetWeather said: “Overall, June-July-August temperatures are forecast to be warmer than the 1991-2020 long-term average during Summer 2024.”

It added: “July forecast to be the hottest month, perhaps up to 2C above the average.”

Explaining its forecast, NetWeather’s long-range summer forecast in August claimed: “Given the predominant wind direction from southwest or south, temperatures will be above average, but not as much as July, given greater chance of unsettled weather off the Atlantic, but still 0.5C-1C above the 30-year average.

“Rainfall could equally be average or above, but less likely to be below.”

Warmer temperatures would come just in time for the summer and also for the European Championships.

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Fans across England and Scotland will no doubt flood beer gardens to cheer on the Three Lions and Tartan Army.

Good conditions will undoubtedly be welcomed by publicans on either side of the border.

The Met Office’s mid-June to early July forecast also appeared to suggest temperatures could exceed recent averages.

“All areas can expected to see some spells of drier, sunnier weather but there will also be showers or longer spells of rain at times,” the UK’s national weather service said.

“Temperatures are most likely to be close to normal or slightly above.”

Marco Petagna, a forecaster at the Met Office, also said: “It’s been a taste of summer for the first couple of days, but for the week ahead and much of June it’s looking more mixed again, but there are signs that towards the end of June we could see something more settled, warmer and drier.”

He added: “For the three-month period as a whole [June, July and August], temperatures are likely to be above average overall so there’s a chance we’ll see some hot spells at times but the signals on rainfall are quite balanced, there’s equal chances of whether it will be wet or dry.

“The temperature signal is pretty good, it’s expected to be warmer than average overall.”

The warmest of the year so far is 27.5C in Chertsey, Surrey, on May 12.