Wednesday, July 9 marks the first date of the third heatwave of the summer so far.
UK households have been urged to shut windows and doors from 10am to 3pm as the UK heatwave kicks off. Wednesday, July 9 marks the first date of the third heatwave of the summer so far, the Express reports.
And UK towns and cities face pollen counts exploding amid rising mercury. Glen Peskett, DIY expert at Saxton Blades, says it’s important for sufferers to allergy-proof their home and urges households to shut windows and doors between 10am and 3pm.
He said: “It’s important to get fresh air, and when the weather begins to improve, it’s even more tempting to open your home up to the warmer elements.
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“However, during peak pollen times – usually between 10 am and 3 pm, and on windy days – it’s extremely beneficial to keep your windows and doors shut. This is especially important in bedrooms, where you want to breathe easy at night.”
Exacta Weather’s James Madden said: “The overnight GFS runs also reconfirm those high pressure rises from around the early to middle part of next week (potentially 1–2 days outside or for the exact period in our long-term and repeated projections/dates), and they also SHORTEN any cool/unsettled weather to later in the week leading to at least several days of very warm to hot conditions for many…
“This is another one of those evenly split scenarios that always causes me issues and when I possibly have to diverge between more recent and repeated model updates nearer the time of actual occurrence and from what my long-range forecasts have hinted at for quite some time.
“However, the much cooler and unsettled options for later next week could still change over the coming days to be more high pressure dominated and, with the expected early to midweek heat peaking at something very warm to hot, but with the alternative (cooler/unsettled) also being something we did cover as an option to occur in all our more moderate to long-range reports for these exact dates in July, and I am often hard pushed to decide between these latest model indicators and my own long-range indications for certain dates and with them having served me so well and successfully to the present day with repeated and exact or almost exact dates of expected weather events (heat, cold, storms, snow).”
Mr Madden said: “In essence, we will either see a continuation and peaking of the expected heat on our part from earlier in the week around next weekend (this heat was also NOT on the radar of any others for next week) or a developing much cooler and unsettled period for all over a few days, which is then highly likely to be replaced with another spell of heat straight after or a heatwave in the final third of July.”
