Brb just booking tickets to Lerwick 🥶 While parts of the UK will be roasting in temperatures reaching a ridiculous 40°C next week, there will be a few places much, much cooler.
not all of the UK will experience such heat.in the southeast, Wick in the far north of Scotland will be a relatively cool 14°C.supports HTML5 video
The Met Office has forecast highs of 18°C in Aberdeen, Stornoway and Tiree in the Inner Hebrides on Monday afternoon. Lerwick, in the Shetlands, is expected to see highs of 15°C on Monday while overnight temperatures are expected to a few degrees cooler dropping to around 12°C. On Tuesday, the coolest places in the UK will again be in Scotland and also Londonderry in Northern Ireland, which will sees highs of 17°C.Kirkwall in Orkney will be 19°C and Durness will 20°C.Views of the town of Wick in Northern Scotland Grahame Madge, a Met Office spokesperson has said there is an 80% chance of the all-time UK temperature record being broken, and a 50% chance of temperatures of 40°C being reached somewhere in the UK next week.
‘If we get to 40°C that’s a very iconic threshold and shows that climate change is with us now,’ he said.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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