UK Set for a BBQ Summer

23 Mar 2010

Britain could be set for a Barbecue summer according to independent weather forecasters Positive Weather Solutions (PWS).

Last year the Met office famously predicted that the UK would be sweltering in a warm summer but the promised sunshine failed to materialise. They then predicted that we'd experience a 'mild winter' and instead we had the coldest temperatures for 30 years.  After criticism of the forecasts the Met office scrapped its long range forecasts.

However, PWS has stuck its neck out and said we can expect that BBQ summer this year. They have already accurately predicted the big freeze, said there was a chance of a white Christmas and have made a host of other accurate long term solutions.

The firm reckon that temperatures in June, July and August could even be higher than those seen during the hottest summer on record 1976, during that summer the UK sizzled in average temperatures of 17.8C (64F).

They also predict that there will be a two-week heatwave at the start of August with temperatures forecast to beat the UK's record high of 38.5C (101.3F) which was recorded at Brogdale in Kent, on August 10, 2003.

Senior forecaster at PWS Jonathan Powell said: "There will be stifling temperatures, making it possibly the warmest UK summer on record and placing it at least in the top three warmest summers recorded.
"There's a good chance of record temperatures across the UK. The highest temperature record of 38.5C may well fall."

He added that "A very warm summer like this has been on the cards for some years, and the Met Office believed it was likely to happen last year.

"But now it is time to get the barbecue out – and people should be able to find a good deal on one after last year’s Met Office forecast."
Paddy Power are currently offering odds of 10/1 that 2010 will be the hottest on record in the UK and 8/1 that it will be the driest.

However, after experiencing the coldest winter on for 30 years they are also offering odds of 4/1 that 2010 will actually be the coldest on record.