Met Office weather forecasters predict peak temperatures will drop below the heatwave threshold in southern areas on Sunday - for the first time since Friday last week

Forecasters warned that temperatures could climb to the highest level ever recorded in the month of May, reaching 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas of England.

Relentless heat ploughing the energy of an atom bomb into the atmosphere will explode with a deluge of thunderstorms. As Britons sizzle in the hottest May temperatures ever recorded, experts warn the heatwave is about to erupt.

The UK weather has been on a rollercoaster lately. After a stretch of unusual, sweltering heat, people living in eastern England now have something else to watch for: sudden thunderstorms, flash downpours,

The Met Office described the temperature as "exceptional" even for midsummer, noting that records are typically broken by mere fractions of a degree.

A record-breaking spring heat wave swept across Western Europe, shattering temperature records in the U.K. and France