Britain’s scorching spell is now coming to an finish with cooler and windy climate on the way in which, with the outlook for more and more unsettled circumstances over the subsequent few days.
Temperatures will transfer nearer to the seasonal common throughout the UK with showers shifting into northern England and Scotland, the Met Workplace mentioned. The moist climate may proceed into the weekend in northern areas, with sturdy winds additionally anticipated.
Additional south, sunny spells will keep however temperatures shall be decrease amid mild winds. It’s going to then flip cloudier by the beginning of subsequent week, with rain shifting in from the west.
Glastonbury revellers are anticipated take pleasure in climate throughout the weekend that’s ‘largely dry with loads of sunny spells’ and temperatures about common for June, which shall be at 18C (64F) at the moment earlier than rising to 19C (66F) tomorrow and 21C (70F) on Sunday.
It follows the UK’s first heatwave of the 12 months that noticed a 2024 excessive of 30.3C (86.5F) on Wednesday and a four-day warmth well being alert that expired yesterday afternoon.
Revellers stroll via the Glastonbury Competition website at Worthy Farm in Somerset this morning
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
Tents at Worthy Farm this morning as revellers put together for a day of music throughout the levels
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
The Glastonbury Competition website at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, is pictured this morning
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
Folks acquire garbage on the Glastonbury Competition this morning forward of the artists taking part in
Met Workplace spokesman Grahame Madge mentioned: ‘After the spell of heat earlier this week, the UK forecast is pivoting quickly to cooler and extra unsettled circumstances.
‘This modification is being pushed by an unseasonably deep space of low stress to the west of Scotland, that is bringing sturdy winds and rain to northern components of the UK, together with Scotland, Northern Eire and northern England.
‘A chilly entrance from this technique is dragging cooler air eastwards throughout the remainder of the UK. That is bringing temperatures right down to a lot nearer common values.
‘The UK outlook for the subsequent few days is for durations of unsettled circumstances to be interspersed with brighter spells.’
The incoming unsettled climate follows a interval of sustained excessive temperatures.
Wednesday was the most popular day of the 12 months to date, the Met Workplace mentioned, with a excessive of 30.3C (86.5F) recorded at Heathrow Airport.
The earlier hottest day of the 12 months was Tuesday, with the mercury topping out at 30C (86F) in Chertsey in Surrey.
Met Workplace meteorologist Kathryn Chalk mentioned the final time 30C was recorded within the UK earlier than this week was on September 10 final 12 months – almost 300 days in the past.
The UK excessive yesterday was 25.5C (77.9F) at Heathrow.
The NHS mentioned the variety of folks in search of warmth recommendation on its web site ‘skyrocketed’ after a yellow warmth well being alert overlaying many of the nation got here into power on Monday. This warning expired at 5pm yesterday.
London’s skill to cope with future excessive heatwaves was put to the take a look at yesterday because the capital’s key companies got here collectively to plan easy methods to assist residents and minimise disruption.
‘Operation Helios’ explored an excessive warmth state of affairs of 5 days of warmth that scientists warn may have an effect on Londoners by 2027.
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
Revellers stroll via the Glastonbury Competition website at Worthy Farm in Somerset this morning
Folks acquire garbage on the Glastonbury Competition this morning forward of the artists taking part in
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
Two folks in hammocks on the Glastonbury Competition at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, at the moment
Glastonbury revellers queue up to make use of the amenities this morning because the pageant continues
Folks acquire garbage on the Glastonbury Competition this morning forward of the artists taking part in
In the meantime Glastonbury comes amid deliberate industrial motion by junior medical doctors, as NHS Somerset provided recommendations on easy methods to ‘keep nicely’ during times of scorching climate to assist ‘ease stress on well being and care’.
‘We all know that providers shall be underneath stress this week,’ Dr Bernie Marden, chief medical officer for NHS Somerset, mentioned.
‘With Glastonbury Competition additionally going down this week and anticipated heat climate, we’re sharing a number of reminders about easy steps folks can take to take care of themselves, and keep wholesome and nicely.’
The primary levels at Worthy Farm open at the moment, with pop singer Dua Lipa headlining the Pyramid Stage this night earlier than rock band Coldplay and soul singer SZA play the stage tomorrow and on Sunday.
Dua Lipa will headline the British pageant for the primary time when she takes to the stage in Somerset this night.
The 28-year-old is anticipated to deal with revellers to a number of her hit songs, together with Houdini and Coaching Season from her third studio album, Radical Optimism, launched earlier this 12 months.
Squeeze will open the Pyramid Stage at noon at the moment, adopted by rising star Olivia Dean, Ok-pop group Seventeen and singer Paul Heaton.
LCD Soundsystem will then take to the stage at 7.45pm, forward of Dua Lipa’s set.
The American rock band, whose hits embody Dance Yrself Clear and All My Pals, final performed Glastonbury in 2016 the place they carried out on the Different Stage.
Joe Wicks will take to the Park Stage at 10am at the moment, to once more extra festival-goers via their paces, the place he’s hoping for crowds of as much as 4,000.
The stage had been set to see Groove Armada final evening earlier than the digital music duo had been moved to different DJ slots as a result of measurement of anticipated crowds.
The pageant additionally contains artwork installations and sights and this 12 months revellers have been handled to Carhenge, a sequence of 24 mutated classic automobile sculptures, and Arcadia’s fire-belching dragonfly set up, which had beforehand taken the type of a spider.
