UK weather: Bank Holiday Monday set to be another scorcher with more record-breaking temperatures expected

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Stephanie Cockroft26 August 2019

Bank Holiday Monday is set to be another scorcher, with experts predicting the possibility of more record-breaking temperatures.

Sunseekers will see more high temperatures today, with 33C day predicted in some areas, including the south east of England.

If the mercury climbs this high it would smash the current record for an August Bank Holiday Monday, set in 2017, when the temperature climbed to 28.2˚C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.

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Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell said: "All in all, if you like the sunshine and the hot weather, then it is going to be a good day.

"Temperatures will be very similar to Sunday. We are likely to see something like 33C.

"There could be scope that the record could be nudged up, but either way, it is going to be a hot day across the UK."

Thousands of fans at a sold-out Headingly in Leeds baked in the sunshine on Saturday as England kept their Ashes hopes alive thanks to a scorching innings by Ben Stokes.

The previous record for a bank holiday before Sunday was 31.5C (88.7F), recorded at Heathrow in 2001, meaning the record was smashed by more than 2C.

On Saturday a new record for Wales was also set in Gogerddan, where 28.8C was recorded.

On Monday, early morning fog is set to lift to leave a sunny day, while some rain may reach the far North West later.

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There is going to be plenty of sunshine across eastern and central parts of the UK, while it is set to be fresher in the North and West.

Temperatures could be in the low 20s in the West, Northern Ireland and the South.

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The late summer sunshine, as a result of warm air being dragged up over the UK from France, comes at the end of what has been a wet and chilly month so far.

It beat the previous UK record of 38.5C, set in Kent in 2003.