where to go, their houses are built wrongly or they re living on the top floor in a very unsuitable apartment for very high temperatures. so, really thinking about going forward into the future, you know, how we re building in the future and when we are redeveloping somewhere, you know, what standards we re building to to making sure that railways don t buckle or people are not living on the floodplain. above all of that, of course, there is the great concern about what a0 celsius means about our changing climate. decades ago, it s thought that number wasn t even possible in the uk and now, here we are and the future suggest it s going to happen more often with the widespread disruption, with the impacts on people s health. and that, of course is down to climate change. that, of course is down to greenhouse gas emissions and how we ve changed the world around us. so, the cause of this extreme heatwave is twofold. it s a combination of the chaotic natural variability of the we
to it than that. let s head into the bbc weather studios to find out more. so, let s define a heatwave. let s find out what that actually means, and it means different things in different parts of the uk. it s at least three days with the temperature above a certain threshold, and that threshold differs by county. look at this map from the met office which shows the different thresholds. the white areas, for example all of scotland and northern ireland, much of wales that threshold is 25 celsius, so at least three days with the temperature at or above that and it s a heatwave. the threshold rises to the darker red around the london area, that s 28 celsius. of course, parts of south east england are more accustomed to higher temperatures than elsewhere. and how do we get hot weather into the uk in summer? well, it s a familiar weather pattern. we draw up high temperatures from africa, from iberia
hottest place in the country, with temperatures soaring up to 28 degrees. it was dry again across parts of the south, but we have seen and barely any rainfall so far this month. although there is a bit of rain to come in at the forecast of the next few days, they will be little if anything reaching those dries areas of the south east and anglia. the heaviest areas will always be scotland, parts of northern england and wales as well. 0vernight policies of rain blowing in, quite a humid night. some cloud will turn out to be quite loud, some mist and fog patches developing over higher ground. we are already off to a website on sunday, temperatures will be surging across eastern england with south westerly winds. pressure still with us, still
bringing breezy conditions with further pulses of rain. they were to speu further pulses of rain. they were to spell it will be in northern ireland, western areas of scotland. probably some rain working across wales into the north midlands, the peaksin wales into the north midlands, the peaks in pennines for a time in the afternoon. a much warmer day in aberdeen, in east anglia temperatures are likely to hit 30 celsius during sunday afternoon. for monday, the same air of low pressure is with us. if you chilbers across the western areas, sunny spells in between. more generally high teens for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures also dropping between england and wales. beyond that high pressure stays in charge, drinking sunny and dry weather to england and wales. they will be some dry weather