Powerful Hurricane Erin has brought storm surges and dangerous winds to the Caribbean and the US East Coast as the UK basked in its fourth heatwave over the weekend.
Erin has swept away from the US and has been downgraded to a category 3storm, but could still upset the weather gods over here.
So as Brits pray for sunny weather over the bank holiday weekend, Metro explored whether the next week will bring clear skies or rainy downpours.
Will there be another heatwave?
The Met Office has said that parts of the country will continue to see over 20C heat throughout this week.
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By Friday, a ridge of high pressure across the UK will provide mostly settled and dry conditions.
This means Brits will likely still enjoy fine and dry weather over the bank holiday weekend.
Central and southern England look set for the warmest temperatures between 23C and 25C, while other regions could see high teen and low 20s.
These highs don’t appear hot enough to be defined as another heatwave, however.
For that to happen, the heat need to exceed the heatwave temperature thresholds for three days in a row.
These thresholds are 27C and 28C for most of south and south east England, but 25C and 26C for the remainder of England and the UK.
The Met Office has already said summer 2025 could be the hottest on record after parts of the country hit 27C on Sunday.
Met Office scientist, Emily Carlisle, said: ‘It’s looking like this summer is on track to be one of the warmest, if not ‘the’ warmest, since the series began in 1884.
‘What’s striking is the consistency of the warmth. June and July were both well above average and even outside of heatwaves, temperatures have remained on the warmer side.’
Will Hurricane Erin hit the UK?
Despite the positive picture this week, experts have revealed that Storm Erin’s low pressure is causing ‘uncertainty’ to the long-term weather forecast.
The low pressure will bring unsettled and wetter weather as it moves across the Atlantic and hits the west coast.
Discussing a long-range forecast between Saturday, August 13, and September 1, a Met Office spokesperson said: ‘High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first, bringing widely fine and dry weather whilst an on-shore flow leads to rather cool conditions in parts of the north east.
‘Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic.
‘This is linked to Hurricane Erin, which is expected to start to bring a change in weather to the UK, though the timing of this is uncertain.
‘From early to mid-week, high pressure may become increasingly eroded from the west as low pressure and frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic, leading to more changeable conditions with spells of rain through the remainder of the week.
‘Temperatures likely warm or very warm to start before trending towards average.’
Hurricane Erin reached winds of 125mph on Sunday morning , according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
It has now been downgraded to a category 3 storm after hitting category 5 status last week.
The devastating rain and winds left more than 147,000 people without power on Sunday in Puerto Rico, with more than 20 flights also cancelled.
Residents of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Turks and Caicos Islands are all expected to be affected as the storm rages on this week.
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