Hot weather maps show next heatwave lasting 7 days - 9 hottest counties in 34C scorcher

UK weather maps are turning red with scorching highs of 34C to hit nine counties as another summer heatwave prepares to hit the country. This will come days after the Met Office issued 11-hour weather warnings that are currently covering large parts of southern England.

WXCharts and Netweather have forecast hot weather to hit the UK next week (August 7 to 13). This could hit highs of 34C on August 8, with Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, London, Surrey, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire. Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent experiencing the hottest weather. It will reach between 26C and 29C across much of the southwest, the Midlands, and the northeast. East Walesand southeast Scotland will sit between 23C and 25C. The far southwest, the northwest, west Wales, and south Scotland will be between 19C and 22C. The north of Scotland and Northern Ireland will be coldest, ranging from 15C-18C.

The Netweather maps begin to turn red on August 7, with highs of 30C in the West of England and close to the border with Wales.

Highs of 30C are also shown on August 9 and 10 across London and the south coast, before dipping slightly to 29C on August 11 but then rising to as high as 31C on August 12 and even 32C on the south coast on August 13.

However, the Met Office has warned of unsettled weather in the early part of August, before high pressure likely becoming more dominan mid-month that will see warmer conditions.

Its long-range forecast for August 4-13 sys: "Early next week there is the potential for an unseasonably deep area of low pressure to affect the UK, which would bring widely windy and wet weather, especially for the west or northwest of the UK.

"The forecast around this is rather uncertain, however, and it is also possible that this will turn into a less windy but still wet spell further south.

"Following this, a continuation of the broadly changeable pattern is expected, with spells of rain or showers, some drier, brighter interludes and temperatures mainly near average.

"As we move towards mid-month, there is an increased chance of high pressure becoming more dominant, leading to drier, warmer and more settled conditions becoming more widespread."