UK weather forecast LIVE: Britain to roast in sweltering 28C heatwave but Met Office warns thundery showers could return

BRITAIN will roast in maximum temperatures of 28C today – but there’s still a risk of thunder and heavy showers, according to experts.

A tropical North African blast sweeping in from the south has plunged the country into a steamy hot spell, with the mercury set to rocket by the middle of this week, according to weather experts.

And despite warm air from North Africa bringing above-average temperatures to most places in the UK this week, the balmy weather will be broken up with more potentially heavy or thundery showers.

Met Office forecaster Alex Deakin said: “Further east though most places dry and fine with plenty of very warm sunshine and quite a humid feel, widely up to 23C, 24C, London up towards the Wash here 26C, possibly 27C. Cooler on the coast where it stays misty and cooler under the cloud and rain further west.”

He continued: “At the same time there is the risk of thunderstorms drifting up from France across East Anglia and the South East, hit or miss again not everywhere seeing the downpours but they could be pretty lively.”

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