by Joe Jeffrey
Bookies slash odds on 2015 being hottest year on record as three-month heatwave predicted
Get your sunscreen at the ready caravanners, as Britain is on course for a three-month heatwave.
A five-day sizzler this week will see temperatures reach 23C according to Met Office experts – that’s hotter than Bondi Beach – with further good weather predicted for most parts of the country, ensuring perfect conditions for getting out and about and making the most of those cloudless skies in the comfort of your leisure vehicle.
The warm weather is expected to rebuff chillier air generated by cool ocean temperatures off the coast of the USA, whilst providing a boost to the usual rained-off UK bank holidays in May, as well as pending spring music festivals and sporting events such as Wimbledon from 29 June to 12 July.
William Hill has slashed weather record odds of 2015 seeing record temperatures to just 2/1, with odds on temperatures topping 100F currently at 8/1, perhaps giving bookmakers across the country good reason to sweat.
Met Office forecaster Helen Roberts said: “The hottest days of the year look very possible in the first days of the week ahead. It will become rather warm for many and perhaps very warm in places.
“Temperatures will climb in a southerly feed of air, with the South-East hottest and Tuesday at 22C and up to 23C, followed by Wednesday at up to 24C, dependent on cloud as a front moves south.
“The best of the sunshine will be in the south – although Tuesday will see quite widespread sunshine across England and Wales.
So what do you reckon? Are we in for record temperatures this year, or is this just a load of hot air over nothing?
