Temperatures forecast to reach 33C in parts of Wales next week
Nation.Cymru staff
Temperatures could climb as high as 33C in parts of Wales next week as another spell of hot weather moves across the country.
The Met Office said temperatures will begin rising again from Saturday before the heat becomes more widespread across Wales and England by Tuesday.
Eastern parts of Wales are expected to be among the warmest areas on Saturday, when temperatures could reach around 29C.
Conditions are then forecast to become hotter during the following days, with highs of between 30C and 33C possible across parts of Wales and central and southern England by Tuesday.
Honor Criswick, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said Friday was expected to be a “nice, dry, settled day with quite a bit of warm sunshine around”.
She said temperatures would start increasing on Saturday before rising further over the weekend.
“Where we see the sunshine, it’s going to start to turn quite increasingly warm on Saturday,” she said.
Some showery rain is possible on Sunday, although forecasters do not expect it to make a significant difference following an exceptionally dry summer.
Ms Criswick said: “It’s only just a few showers, and there’s not much rain, really.
“It’s not going to be enough to make any real difference to the dry summer we’ve had.”
Temperatures are expected to fall slightly on Monday before climbing again on Tuesday, when the hotter conditions are forecast to spread across a greater area of Wales and England.
Record-breaking July
The renewed heat comes after Wales recorded its driest July since records began in 1836.
Provisional Met Office figures showed the country received just 9% of its average rainfall during the month.
Both Wales and England received less than half the amount of rain recorded during the previous driest July in 1911.
Wales also experienced its sunniest July on record, with the Met Office saying it was the sunniest calendar month ever recorded in the country.
The prolonged dry weather has contributed to drought conditions and wildfires across Wales during the summer.
The latest hot spell follows a succession of periods of unusually high temperatures during the summer, including heatwaves in May, June and July.
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These ‘extreme temperature hotspots’ are obviously as a result of the ‘heat island’ effect. Specifically at Bute Park in Cardiff city centre and at Hawarden airport Airbus hangers in the north. Needs to be addressed with urban tree planting and re-introducing green spaces where concrete slabs and buildings are now present. Pockets which retain heat overnight causing cumulative hotspots.
Er, it’s across a lot of the south and south east nudging into the west of the UK and across a lot of the EU, we are getting the tip of the heat dome. South Wales predicted 31 on Tuesday and 38 on the continent (subject to change). When the air mass is hot and blocked in our part of the world, we suffer.
Power plants across the EU are in difficulty due to water levels and parts of Holland are in trouble using water for growing. That will have a knock on.
Good year for heatwaves. Good year for oil profits. Bad year for us. So, who is all this benefiting. Time to remove the profits from oil.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/07/extreme-heat-breaks-temperature-records-central-eastern-europe