Forecasters have predicted a scorcher of a summer with blazing highs of 30c expected for the next forty days.

Weather maps show the searing heat could begin as early as tomorrow as a 1,000-mile wide pressure is set to swoop through the country, gifting dry skies and sunshine for most.

Ex-BBC and Met Office forecaster John Hammond of Weathertrending said: “It’s optimistic for the holiday season. High pressure may rebuild after midweek showers, with lengthy dry spells in late July in between occasional showery rain.

“Early August may allow 30C warmth to waft our way. High pressure may well bring a fine spell.”

Parents have been warned to prepare for a heatwave ahead of the kids breaking up from school on Friday.

Last summer saw Britain at it’s hottest with a 45-day summer belter of temperatures over 27C.

The Met Office has predicted record temperatures for the next three months and have passed on the information to Government chiefs to plan accordingly.

Britain’s hopes of a sizzling summer may be resting on one thing – tomorrow’s outlook – as the old St Swithin’s rhyme reads “if thou be fair, for forty days ’twill rain na mair.”

The Weather Outlook forecaster Brian Gaze said: “There looks to be truth in the Swithin’s saying this year.

“A sunny Swithin’s is set to be followed by plenty of sunny and dry spells over the next 40 days for the South and East – with the North and West also seeing dry stints, but some unsettled conditions at times.”

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