Sunshine will dominate the week, following the driest July on record, as temperatures on most days hover in the mid to late twenties with no sign of cloudy weather.
However, things will warm up on Sunday before peaking on Monday, when temperatures could reach 32C according to the Met Office.
The UKHSA’s health alert is in place from 10am on August 2 until 10am on Thursday, August 5.
Meteorologist Tom Moran said: “After the driest July on record across England and Wales, there is at least some welcome rain in the forecast early next week for some of us, but not for all.
“For England and Wales, it’s another dry start to the day, so plenty of sunshine through the first day of August here, generally a bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up. But for most, long periods of sunshine.
“In the south, temperatures will still be a little above average, possibly 27 or 28 locally in the southeast of England and certainly in the mid-twenties quite widely.
“[Sunday] will be turning relatively hot once again in the southeast, where temperatures could get quite close to 30 degrees Celsius in the London area.
“There is an increasingly unsettled flavour to the weather on Monday and Tuesday… there will be probably be some hit or miss showers across England and Wales, so for gardeners and farmers there may well be some respite from the drought conditions in the south but we’re not looking at anything widespread or particularly significant in terms of rainfall.”
The Met Office said on Friday that a record-breaking July characterised by an “exceptional combination of extreme heat, abundant sunshine and an almost complete absence of rainfall”.
Provisional statistics showed that only 5.6mm of rainfall had been recorded in England in July – less than half of the previous record of 13.4mm set in 1911.
Half of England and the whole of Wales is is officially in drought as successive heatwaves put pressures on water resources.
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