In Northern Ireland and Scotland things have already started to change.
On Monday at 15:00 Aboyne in Aberdeenshire had a temperature of 26.7C. At the same time on Tuesday, the thermometer read just 12.5C with overcast skies and spots of rain.
And while the change won’t necessarily be quite that dramatic everywhere, cooler weather is expected to arrive in time for the weekend.
An area of low pressure will pass to the north of Scotland during Thursday and Friday, bringing a cold front eastwards across the UK. This will sweep the warm and humid air away towards continental Europe leaving us with cooler winds from the Atlantic.
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