Met Office gives UK 'Indian Summer' prediction with date hot weather will return
An Indian Summer could be on the way for the UK with a date for hot weather returning in mere days according to the Met Office.
It’s no secret that this summer has been a touch flat for the UK. It started with weeks of rain in June, briefly turned into hot weather a bit at the end of July then went back to raining in August.
The Bank Holiday weather was nothing to write home about, and now we look set for even more rain.
There’s a glimmer of hope in the Met Office’s long range forecast though.
The UK weather experts have predicted that September could bring ‘more widely settled’ weather and ‘above average temperatures’, giving us all hope that an ‘Indian Summer’ could be on the cards after all.
The Met Office said; “High pressure will tend to be located either over or close to the UK through much of this period, leading to a more widely settled period of weather for most, with some cool nights, but near or slightly above average temperatures by day.
“That said, weak frontal systems could still provide some cloud and patchy outbreaks of rain at times, this most likely in northwestern areas, and there is a chance of some heavy thundery showers and more humid conditions in the south too. The mostly settled conditions are expected to then win out, with high pressure building in from the southwest once more, with the chance of seeing a more widely showery spell towards the end of this period considered low”.
It might not last, as mid-September, from September 11 onwards, looks more unsettled, with “a return to a mixture of weather types” predicted, as is fairly typical for the time of year.
It says ‘spells of wet weather’ will be ‘interspersed with drier periods’ and could even be ‘cooler than average’.
So the best chance at an Indian Summer appears to be the first two weeks of September.
What is an Indian Summer?
The phrase refers to the late arrival of summer conditions, where unexpectedly warm conditions give us one final bit of hot weather to enjoy at a time when we'd normally expect cooler autumn temperatures to be arriving.
The Met Office says this is normally used to refer to October although many Brits have used the phrase about September as well.
The weather experts add: "Despite the basis of these phrases around particular dates, there is no statistical evidence to suggest that such warm spells recur at any particular time each year - warm spells during the autumn months are not uncommon."
