The heat will remain strong across the Southern half of the UK and Ireland through next week while it’s a touch cooler with spells of rain across Northern Ireland and particularly Scotland.

Even across more Northern areas, rain will be mainly light rain and scattered showers along with sunshine. How far south any rain gets remains unclear and for the bulk of England and Wales, there will be little to no rain through the next 7-10 days.

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The models have been consistent for days now on another surge of very warm to hot weather across the board during the second half of next week through next weekend and into the following week. This could be the 3rd BBQ weekend in a row. We could be right back to where we started with highs of 25-28C widely, including Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The dry soils is doing their dirty work on atmospheric pressure and the bias towards stronger heights centred this year over the Western continent.

Check out these upper level and surface charts for next Thursday through Sunday!

Upper/850 temps.

Wed 17

Thu 18

Fri 19

Sat 20

Sun 21

Surface

Thu 18

Fri 19

Sat 20

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Tags: heatwave, heatwave 2013, UK heatwave