Summer heat is sticking around just a little longer as the UK is set to be hit with an Indian Summer next week.
The unseasonably warm temperatures will reach as high as 21C, weather maps suggest.
Such balmy weather presents a last chance for Brits to hit the beach following a week of torrential rain and even floods in parts of the country.
Warmer conditions are expected to particularly hit East England, while London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, and Birmingham are also forecast to see 20C.
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Areas such as Newcastle, Brighton, Reading and Southampton will be slightly milder – but it is the south of England that will see the majority of the warmer weather.
According to the Met Office, an Indian summer is on the cards as a ridge of high pressure will move across the UK during the first week of October.
Jonathan Vautrey, meteorologist with the Met Office, earlier said: “With southerly winds coming up from Europe, that’ll generally bring a slightly warmer direction of air for us and would then allow those temperatures to climb a touch more.
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“Obviously, it will be dependent on exactly what weather is currently across Europe at that stage as well because that’s what we’ll be tapping into.
“We may not see necessarily the same extreme heat building as this month but it will allow the temperatures to rise above average from the time of year.
“At this stage, already the real indication is that they’ll be slightly increased and above average for certain during that warm spell, so that might allow us to push 20C, or 20C plus in some locations.”
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A Met Office spokesperson said: “The showers are likely to ease from the west leading to a mainly dry start to the weekend (September 30 and October 31).
“Conditions will probably become more unsettled later in the weekend and into the following week as low pressure systems lie to the west or northwest of the UK.”
The balmier weather follows a “mini-tornado” and floods which destroyed houses as Britain felt some of the after-effects of Hurricane Lee in the US.
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