Friday 5th June
After a very wet morning on Thursday, the weather improved in the afternoon with the rain ceasing just before 13.00, that totalled 4.8mm. In fact we have had twice as much rain in the first four days of June than in the whole of May. The welcome afternoon sunshine boosted the temperature to a maximum 18.4C at 16.03, however, this was still 2.3C below my long-term June average. The clear skies overnight gave us a minimum of 10.4C, which was just above average at +0.2C.
Friday began with warm sunshine that had lifted the temperature to 14.1C by 08.00, sadly the sunshine won’t last all day as there is a nasty low pressure system is edging in from the Atlantic, which will push cloud ahead of it with possible rain overnight. Saturday will be a very wet, windy day as the centre of the depression will be overhead the UK having pushed weather fronts ahead of it.
By Sunday the low pressure will be heading away to the north with the anticyclone over the Continent keeping the next weather fronts at bay, that will arrive on Monday. The week ahead looks to continue the unsettled weather with sunshine and showers with temperatures by day likely to be just below the average for June.
Attached is the first of a series of images taken at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset. A magical time of year to visit this extensive site.
Met Office heatwave forecast after 35C record-breaker – ‘more than usual’ chance
Weather forecasters from the Met Office and MeteoGroup say there is an increased chance of heatwaves in the coming months following the 35C record-breaker in May
BY ETHAN BLACKSHAW
PUBLISHED 03 JUNE 2026 21:08
The Met Office has issued a forecast for the next three months, with an “increased chance of heatwave conditions” developing in the UK.
It follows a scorching heatwave in May during which temperatures surged as high as 35.1C in Kew Gardens, London. That was the hottest temperature in May since records began.
Weather models suggest we could soon see the mercury rise back above 30C towards the middle of this month. And now the Met Office has published a long-range outlook for June, July and August – which states “hot conditions are more likely than usual” this summer.
It said that although “near average conditions are still just about the most likely out-come”, forecasters did not want to diminish the fact that “we have a more than usual chance of a hot summer”
