Weather in Britain set to hot up once again with bookies slashing odds on record-breaking 101F

Britain will bask in yet another spell of scorching weather next week with bookies slashing the odds of the UK enjoying the hottest day on record.

A blast of hot air from Spain dubbed the ‘Mediterranean melt’ will force temperatures above the 86F (30C) mark all the way up until Friday, with temperatures set to peak on Thursday, making the UK hotter than Jamaica.

Met Office forecasters are confident that Brits will be treated to 95F (35C) heat, with bookmakers cutting the odds to 2/1 that the country will experience the hottest day ever, beating the 101F (38.5C) record from 2003. 

Beaches were bursting on the first weekend of the break, with a million visitors in Cornwall, 375,000 at Brighton across Saturday and Sunday, 250,000 in Blackpool, 200,000 in Bournemouth and 200,000 in Great Yarmouth.

Millions of daytrippers clogged roads, with traffic jams due on coastal routes including the A23 to Brighton, A31 to Dorset, A30 to Cornwall and M55 to Blackpool.

The Met Office said today’s 30C would be followed by 32C on Monday and Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C possible on Thursday and Friday.

Monika Wojtanowska, aged 29, (left) and Aneta, 26, cool off in the sea as the sizzling weather continues on Bournemouth beach today

Britain will bask in yet another spell of scorching weather next week with bookies slashing the odds of the UK enjoying the hottest day on record (pictured today: the dry grass on Wimbledon Common)

Britain will bask in yet another spell of scorching weather next week with bookies slashing the odds of the UK enjoying the hottest day on record (pictured today: the dry grass on Wimbledon Common)

holidaymakers were caught risking their lives to take photos on the top of crumbling cliffs made famous by TVs Broadchurch

holidaymakers were caught risking their lives to take photos on the top of crumbling cliffs made famous by TVs Broadchurch

A group of friends goes for a paddle on the lake in Hyde Park, with temperatures today much cooler than they are likely to be for the coming week

A group of friends goes for a paddle on the lake in Hyde Park, with temperatures today much cooler than they are likely to be for the coming week

A jogger runs on the burnt dry grass on Wimbledon Common

A woman enjoys an ice cream

A jogger runs on the burnt dry grass on Wimbledon Common (left), while a sunworshipper enjoys an ice cream in Hyde Park

Beaches were bursting  yest again today, with a million visitors over the weekend in Cornwall, 375,000 at Brighton across Saturday and Sunday, 250,000 in Blackpool, 200,000 in Bournemouth (pictured) and 200,000 in Great Yarmouth

Beaches were bursting  yest again today, with a million visitors over the weekend in Cornwall, 375,000 at Brighton across Saturday and Sunday, 250,000 in Blackpool, 200,000 in Bournemouth (pictured) and 200,000 in Great Yarmouth

The Met Office said today's 30C (pictured is a couple in Hyde Park) would be followed by 32C on Monday and Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C possible on Thursday and Friday

The Met Office said today’s 30C (pictured is a couple in Hyde Park) would be followed by 32C on Monday and Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C possible on Thursday and Friday

A blast of hot air from Spain dubbed the ‘Mediterranean melt’ will force temperatures above the 86F (30C) mark all the way up until Friday, with temperatures set to peak on Thursday, making the UK hotter than Jamaica

A blast of hot air from Spain dubbed the ‘Mediterranean melt’ will force temperatures above the 86F (30C) mark all the way up until Friday, with temperatures set to peak on Thursday, making the UK hotter than Jamaica

A rollerblader enjoy the sunny weather in Hyde Park this afternoon, with temperatures set to increase day on day until Friday

Another rollerblader

 Rollerbladers enjoy the sunny weather in Hyde Park this afternoon, with temperatures set to increase day on day until Friday

‘Off the-scale’ highs verging on July’s 36.7C temperature record, set on July 1, 2015, at Heathrow, were forecast by The Weather Outlook.

Bookmakers Coral cut odds to 2/1 on temperatures beating Britain’s hottest temperature ever recorded, the 38.5C (101.3F) on August 10, 2003, at at Brogdale, near Faversham, Kent. 

Britain will break its 33.0C hottest day of the year, set on June 28 at Porthmadog, west Wales, and be hotter than Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Acapulco, Mexico.

The new hot spell is due to last for two weeks, with more heat next week after a slight temporary easing on Saturday and Sunday. 

Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: ‘It’s getting warmer and we could see 35C by Thursday.

‘After 30C on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday look like 32C, with 34C possible on Wednesday and a good chance of over 34.5C by Thursday, and Friday similar.

‘Heat will arrive from the south, passing over the continent. It will be hottest in the South and East.’

The Met Office said today's 30C would be followed by 32C on Monday and Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C possible on Thursday and Friday

The Met Office said today’s 30C would be followed by 32C on Monday and Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C possible on Thursday and Friday

Beaches were bursting on the first weekend of the break, with a million visitors in Cornwall, 375,000 at Brighton across Saturday and Sunday, 250,000 in Blackpool, 200,000 in Bournemouth and 200,000 in Great Yarmouth

Beaches were bursting on the first weekend of the break, with a million visitors in Cornwall, 375,000 at Brighton across Saturday and Sunday, 250,000 in Blackpool, 200,000 in Bournemouth and 200,000 in Great Yarmouth



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