Storms in the southwest today will be a blip rather than the start of a breakdown as the heatwave shows no sign of ending just yet.
For the first time in well over a week, we do have some rain on the radar this morning, but for most, it's another hot, dry, sunny day with the heatwave continuing. Through the upcoming week, there'll be a short blip from midweek, but with high pressure running the show, temperatures are going to remain well above average and rainfall well below average.
Rain wise, the main action today is in the southwest, where some quite potent, thundery showers are making their way inland. There'll be some torrential downpours, with frequent lightning, hail and gusty winds in the mix as the more severe cells pass through. They'll head up into Wales later in the day too, before slowly easing back and moving away overnight and first thing Monday. A storm forecast has been issued, with more details on all of this.
As you may have spotted above, there's also some patchy rain affecting the far northwest of the country. It's not going to be anywhere near as potent as the showers in the south though, with bits and pieces coming and going through the day. The extra cloud will also keep temperatures on the cool side.
Elsewhere, we've still got the cooling easterly breeze, but away from eastern coastal counties, it's going to be hot again with highs up into the high-twenties or low-thirties, with the peak temperatures affecting southern England. It's also more humid in the south, so will feel more oppressive than it has of late.
Next week is set to have three phases; the start will see a continuation of high pressure being in charge, with an easterly breeze keeping temperatures cooler in the east.
The middle will see pressure fall a bit from Wednesday to Friday, so an increased risk of some showers and a bit more cloud around. But still very warm, with many parts seeing temperatures around the mid to high twenties.
Then the end looks to see high pressure re-asserting itself, killing off any showers and maybe even giving temperatures a bump upwards into the thirties again.
So, the heatwave showing no signs of giving up yet. In fact, the ECMWF model which we've used above has high pressure running the show with the sunny, warm and dry weather carrying on right through to the end of the run in 10 days time, and probably beyond.