A heat health alert has been upgraded in Hull and East Yorkshire to the second-highest level – but the hot spell looks set to be coming to an end.
An amber heat health alert has been extended as temperatures soar to around 30C in our region. The UK Health Security Agency and Met Office said amber alerts now applied to the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions as well as the East Midlands, South East, South West, London and the East of England until 9am on Wednesday.
Today has been the hottest in history for the opening of Wimbledon, with first-round players facing temperatures of 29.7C in the opening games this morning.
Officials at the prestigious tennis tournament were preparing to activate a rarely-used heat rule as London braced for a scorching 34–35C. The rule allows ten-minute breaks if temperatures exceed 30.1C, applying to all singles events, including wheelchair competitions.
While the Hull and East Riding area has not achieved quite those blistering temperatures, thermometers were today set to climb to highs of 29 or 30C during a “sunny and hot” day. And there will not be much relief tonight.
Anyone who has been having difficulty sleeping these past few nights will be struggling again with the temperature due to fall no lower than 18 or 19C overnight, as we head into the first hours of July. The Met Office said: “Tonight temperatures will remain high, with some locations not dropping below 20C in what is called a tropical night.
“These sorts of temperatures make it hard to sleep and prevent any recovery from the high daytime temperatures too.”
However, we won’t have to wait long before the mercury begins to dip noticeably. The Met Office added: “Fresher air and some rainfall will move in from the west through the rest of the week, bringing an end to this heatwave, although many parts will remain dry and still see plenty of sunshine.”
In the Hull area on Tuesday, the forecast is for sunny intervals changing to overcast by night-time and a more comfortable daytime high of 23C on the cards, falling to a still-warm but certainly not as stuffy 15C overnight into Wednesday, when some light rain could fall during the morning.
By Thursday, the lowest overnight temperatures are set to be around 12C or 13C which will no doubt be a relief to those sleep-deprived individuals who have been trying to find ways to keep cool.
It’s expected to stay “much fresher than of late” for the rest of the week and over the weekend too with daytime highs of between 18C and 24C.
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