Exact date Brits in these 14 UK areas will face 36C heatwave revealed

Brits are are set for more sweltering temperatures this month and here are 14 areas of the UK that could see the mercury reach 36C.

The Met Office confirmed that 34.7C was recorded at St James’s Park in central London on Tuesday afternoon, beating a 34.4C reading recorded in Writtle, Essex earlier in the day. And just as many are breathing a sigh of relief with cooler temperatures to out the week, weather maps show the mercury will soon hit the mid-30Cs again.

The start of next week is set to still be cooler with temperatures generally in the high teens or low 20Cs but then they spike again by July 12.

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A map from WXCharts shows that the extreme heat will generally be felt across England as well as parts of Wales but it will be notably cooler in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

And there are 14 counties which are all expected to see the mercury hit 36C at 6pm that day. They are: Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire Norfolk.

Maps predict that July 12 will see the peak of the temperatures over that period although it will remain hot, especially for the southeast for most of the following week.

The Met Office states for the period July 8-17: “Likely a fairly cool start to the period with a few showers still to clear from the east, but for most it should become fine and dry, although some chilly mornings are possible. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry.

"Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. However through the second half of the week and especially the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.”

It could see a third heatwave in just a couple of months with scientists warning the searing temperatures earlier in June were made 100 times more likely because of human-caused climate change.

Provisional Met Office figures show England had its warmest June on record, while the UK experienced its second warmest since the series began in 1884 – only surpassed by June, 2023.

Over the coming days though it will be a lot cooler with wind and rain. “The cloud and rain gradually spreading southeastwards across the rest of the UK, but very little reaching the southeast. A mild night but remaining windy in the north,” a Met Office spokesperson said for tonight.

And for Saturday the outlook reads: “A breezy day with large amounts of cloud and some outbreaks of rain, most frequent in the west. Temperatures around average in the north, but feeling warm in the south.”