UK weather experts reveals when hotter temperatures will return - and it's not good news

Leading UK weather experts have revealed when hotter temperatures will finally return - and Brits will be disappointed to hear that we will be left waiting a while for warm temperatures.

Despite meteorological summer starting on June 1, many of us have contemplated putting the central heating back on with the UK temperature for June so far being below average.

Jim Dale, founder and senior meteorological consultant at British Weather Services, put the disappointing start to summer down to a “modified Arctic airstream, low pressure after low pressure, off the record warm North Atlantic which is giving more energy to the frontal systems and showers” and admitted there is no immediate sign of when summer will come.

He told Express.co.uk: “Coming off the back of a record wet winter/spring it is disappointing not to be seeing something more pleasant. The cold weather is down to a broad northerly airstream.

“The hot weather will come from a broad southerly airstream - off North Africa. There is no immediate sign of that but hopes are higher as we move into the final third of June."

The last time the first 10 days of June was this cold was in 2020, according to the Met Office.

There are signs that high pressure will start to move towards Britain by the end of next week, according to weather expert Phil Morrish.

He said: "We have had a cool start to the summer. An area of high pressure has been sitting in the Atlantic blocking our usually mild winds. The high is allowing cold air to come straight down from the Arctic which is why the air is four-fiveC colder than you would expect it to be.

Rebekah Sherwie, Met Office deputy chief meteorologist, told the Express “the immediate forecast suggests no strong signal for temperatures to get above average”, leaving us waiting for summer that bit longer.

She said: “So far during the month we have been in a weather pattern that has brought a northerly air flow to the UK; with high pressure to the west and low pressure over Scandinavia funnelling that flow.

"The UK forecast from tomorrow shows a weather front coming in from the west, reaching all parts of the UK during the day. This will be accompanied by windy conditions, particularly around western and southwestern coasts.

“There is a signal for temperatures to come up to near normal levels through the weekend, but the forecast into next week remains largely unsettled with showers, some heavy, in places.”

Weather maps from WxCharts show that inclement weather is closing in as the UK will be battered by 54 hours of rain from Thursday to Saturday afternoon.

The latest weather front will come from the west and bring with it thunder and intense downpours across the UK.

Rain will be intense across the country when the weather front rolls in on June 13 with high ground in Scotland expected to experience the most intense rain on Thursday evening in places such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Fort William.