The UK's highest ever temperature could be broken again within a month of the record being sent, bookmakers indicate.
Coral is now offering odds of 6-4 that the record of 40.3C set in July will be broken in August 2022. Previously, it offered odds of 3-1. Coral has also made it odds-on that August 2022 will be the month's hottest on record, and offers 1-4 for a hosepipe ban.
“We could be set for more record-breaking temperatures next month, as not only do we make it odds-on to be the hottest August ever, we have slashed the odds in half of the recent record temperature of 40.3C bring broken,” said Coral’s John Hill.
Read more: Met Office update says 'more very warm weather' on way
Ladbrokes has changed its odds on an August heatwave from 2-1 to 10-11. Its spokesperson said: "It looks like we'll be seeing more of the same on the weather front with record-breaking temperatures set to come next month."
James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said: “Confidence is starting to build for another blast of very hot weather during the start of next month. It remains to be seen from model runs nearer the time whether temperatures will edge towards the record heat we have seen this week.
“In the meantime, there are signs of another heat surge at the weekend with temperatures, particularly across the south, lifting back into the 30Cs."
The Met Office's long range forecast is a bit more conservative. But it suggests another heatwave could spread from the south of England to the North East.
The forecast for the period up to August 6 states: "Temperatures around normal throughout, but the potential for a warm or hot spell in the south. Towards the end of the period the drier weather may extend from the south to cover much of the UK."
The 40.3C at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday July 19 provisionally set a new record daily maximum temperature, beating the previous figure set in Cambridge three years ago by 1.6C. Temperatures hit the 36C mark, at least, in the North East on the same day.
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