Temperatures will begin to climb again as another heatwave hits the South over the weekend.

But forecasters have said the UK faces a North-South split, with temperatures of up to 33C (91.4F) in the South while the North seems more showery outbreaks and highs in the mid-20s.

A spokeswoman for the Met Office said: "In terms of the weekend just gone, they were the first two days this month where temperatures haven't reached 25C (77F), but we have got back to that point today, it hit 25.3C (77.5F) in Cavendish in Suffolk, so it's already starting to warm up again.

"Over the next few days there will be something of a north and south split - high pressure is already starting to build up in the south, bringing dry, fine weather.

Summer looks set to return to all parts through the next few days with a steady rise in temperatures #HeatwaveUK #HeatwaveReturns pic.twitter.com/Bt34pr8D5Z — Met Office (@metoffice) July 31, 2018

"Across southern England and Wales, the very hot weather will return as we approach the weekend."


Cooler temperatures, heavy rain and gale-force winds over the weekend provided some respite from the long-running hot spell, breaking a 58-day drought.

Parts of the country saw as much as three inches of rain in what Sky's weather producer Jo Robinson described as a "blip" in this year's British summer.

She said: "After a brief interlude of cooler and more unsettled conditions, high pressure is set to build again through early August.

"Temperatures will tend to build day by day."

But although Britain is set to bake again, she said "it won't be anything like as hot as the end of last week" when the hottest day of the year so far was recorded, with the temperature reaching 35.3C (95.5F) in the market town of Faversham, Kent.