Between that mind-meltingly hot part of summer where the mercury went past 30°C… and the washout that was many other parts of it (seriously, PATHETIC), we have been through it all this summer.
As the bank holiday weekend approaches, the time where we beg the sky to just give us what we want in London, we can confirm that the weather gods are saying things will be quite good. At the time of writing it’s a toasty 22°C, and while the sky might sprinkle us with a bit of Saturday rain, it’s promising to hold up on the Sunday and Monday, aka the days of Notting Hill Carnival (and All Points East).
Day one (Saturday August 24) will start with a hiccup, or rather rain pouring down for a bit, which isn’t the ideal start. However, from the evening onwards, there’s no rain predicted for the rest of the bank holiday weekend, leaving us to skip around London to our heart’s content. It’ll be a nice 20-degrees on Sunday (August 25) and a rather lovely 23°C on bank holiday Monday (August 26). And the good times will even continue beyond the bank holiday weekend, with some seriously toasty mid-to-late-twenties temperatures and sunshine set to head our way. (Keep up to date with the forecast here)
While it doesn’t seem like his weather seems like it was designed in a lab for peak outdoors-ing, if it stays true to its word, it’s quite frankly all we can ask for after the start to the summer in June (RUBBISH). Plus, you don’t want to be too hot or too cold when festival-ing and carnival-ing, so it might end up being kind of… perfect?
The rain is coming, but according to reports, will precede the Sunday and Monday of the bank holiday, so you might just be able to party not worry about your activities being hampered – we can all dream eh?
The weather forecasting community have literally never let us down before, so I’m blindly putting my faith in the absolute certainty of this. No chance of disappointment there…