UK's hottest day of the year expected next week with temperatures to hit 30C

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Brits could see the hottest day of the year so far next week with temperatures reaching 30C in some places. The hot temperatures seen in Spain in recent days look set to head north towards the UK, according to Met Office forecasters.

Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: “As we move into the end of the week, that’s when we are starting to pick up the signal for the potential for some significant heat to come up from the south.” He said this was “still a fair way off at the moment”, so there is is still some uncertainty.

But Mr Vautrey added “there is a signal in that the heat we have currently got over Spain – I believe they are experiencing rather high temperatures at the moment – could edge its way northwards to south-eastern areas of the UK, at least for the end of the week. READ MORE: How a little boy was left alone with a dangerous dog that killed him - and why it should never have happened “So at the moment, the model wants to take us up to mid-20s by the middle of the week and then potentially into low 30s for Friday, which would be the warmest conditions we have seen over the course of this year so far.” The Met Office’s highest recorded temperature for the UK this year was 27.5C at Heathrow in Hillingdon, west London, on May 17.

England and the South East is set to enjoy the “hottest of the weather” because the high-pressure is not extending across the whole of the country, which will keep thing “cooler in northern areas”, but they “will probably still see a gradual increase in temperatures”, Mr Vautrey said.