Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said ’29C is certainly possible and we may also climb towards 30C’ by midweek.
It is continuing to shift north, allowing higher pressure to build widely across the UK during the weekend and into next week, according to the Met Office.
“It has been building its way in from the Atlantic and it is going to be sticking with the vast majority of us throughout Saturday and Sunday.” In Scotland, overnight temperatures into Sunday look set to rise to around 14C in Glasgow or 13C in Aberdeen compared to a chilly 0.8C during the previous night.
“The best and most prolonged amount of sunshine will be further towards the south of the UK, with the cloud just coming and going a touch more across the far north and stretching down into central Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland as well.
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