This brief hot spell will peak on Friday with temperatures set to reach 30C or 31C in parts of south-east England, which could make it the hottest day of the year so far.
The current highest temperature of the year stands at 30.5C recorded at Wisley, Surrey, on the 26 June – so it’s going to come down to a matter of tenths of a degree as to whether we surpass this figure or not.
Temperatures will ease more widely on Saturday, but it will stay warm in parts of East Anglia and south-east England.
