Overview
- The Met Office confirmed Friday that Santon Downham, Suffolk recorded a provisional 37.3°C, marking the hottest June day on record after three consecutive days of broken June highs.
- The heatwave forced several hospitals to declare critical incidents and cancel planned procedures, prompted hundreds of school closures, led to local water restrictions and caused widespread rail and flight disruption.
- As the high‑pressure pattern began to break this weekend, thunderstorms and heavy downpours moved in across central and eastern England, causing lightning, hail, short‑term power and travel problems and hundreds of flight delays at Heathrow and Gatwick.
- Long‑range weather models such as the GFS show a potential multi‑day return of very high temperatures around July 8–11, but forecasters warn that those projections are model‑dependent and carry uncertainty beyond a few days.
- U.S. regional forecasters are independently warning of a separate, potentially dangerous heat surge for the mid‑Atlantic and parts of the Southeast next week with heat indices likely above 100–105°F and Heat Advisories or Extreme Heat Warnings expected.