Heatwave live: Temperatures could 'maybe' hit 36C today, forecaster says

Temperatures today stand an outside chance of hitting 36C, a Met Office forecaster has said.

Meteorologist Alex Burkill said the weather in the UK is set for a “three-way split.”

Burkill said conditions would be largely divided between scorching heat in parts of the south, some scattered showers in the South West, Wales and northern England, and largely dry conditions in northwest Scotland and Northern Ireland.

But in the South East, where the heat was hottest, temperatures could climb as high as 36C, he said.

Burkill explained: “With all that sunshine, with all the hot weather that we’ve had recently, the heat’s going to continue to build [and] temperatures are going to rise a little bit higher.

“Towards the South East, many places high 20s, low 30s, but there’s potential that we could be looking at around 34, 35, maybe even 36C tomorrow.”

Elsewhere, he said there could be a bit of cloud, with even the chance of “one or two showers developing” coming from the South West and affecting parts of Wales and northern England.