Met Office update as UK set to roast in more heatwaves soon this summer after 35C scorcher

The Met Office released its three-month summer outlook on 1 June and it looks like it is going to be a warm one

This summer could be the hottest ever, forecasters have warned, with a massive heat blast set to blight Britain in the coming weeks. We could see a number of heatwaves over the next few months, say the Met Office, who released its three-month summer outlook on 1 June – the first day of meteorological summer.

Experts have warned of “higher than normal chances” of hotter weather over June, July and August – with the prediction made just a week after a late spring heatwave say temperatures records shattered for May across the UK.

Weather boffs say the outlook suggests an “increased chance of heatwaves and heat-related impacts” in the coming weeks according to their charts. The new all-time May record of 35.1C was set in Kew Gardens, London, replacing the previous record of 32.8C from 1944 and now it is expected that yet more records could be broken for summer 2026.

The long-range forecasts from the Met Office and MeteoGroup – the latter being providers of BBC Weather data – suggest the summer ahead will bring the risk of additional heatwaves including a “few notable high temperature spikes.”

They say that “above-average temperatures” are expected for each of the months of June, July and August, and “significant bursts” of heat are expected in the UK, and across Europe.

But, according to the Met Office, the higher than average temperatures forecast comes as having a hotter summer is now twice as likely than the reference averaging period of 1991-2020, consistent with our warming climate. Droughts could also become an issue, with hosepipe bans may be being brought in should the hot weather take over.

MeteoGroup predicts a drier period which could see measures implemented to ration the water supply in the heat.

But experts from the Met Office suggests an average to perhaps even wetter-than-normal season.

The MeteoGroup long-range forecast has precipitation below average overall, especially through June and July across England and Wales.

The wettest areas are more likely towards Scotland where rainfall could be around average.

Meanwhile, the Met Office says “the chance of a wet season [summer] are slightly higher than normal”.

“While these long-range predictions give an idea of overall UK conditions over the three-month period of summer, in recent years we have seen more variability in rainfall patterns,” they said.

“In 2025, while the UK average summer rainfall was 84%, northern and western areas of the UK were much wetter than average while central, eastern and southern parts were much drier with less than half of expected rainfall.”

Droughts were declared across much of England in 2025 following a very dry spring, and hosepipe bans followed in the summer after demand for water increased.