If you're already fed up of the wet weather in Bradford, there's hope on the horizon.

Summery weather is set to return in time for the weekend, as rain and thunderstorms make way for sunshine and warmth, according to the Met Office.

The June washout will continue today and tomorrow, with severe Met Office weather warnings for rain and thunderstorms covering most of the UK.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: A yellow weather warning covers the whole north of the country for Monday A yellow weather warning covers the whole north of the country for Monday

However, hot air moving in from continental Europe will bring with it drier, sunnier and warmer conditions, and by Saturday Bradford is set to be basking in temperatures as high as 26C.

Parts of the south could get as hot as 35C.

The June record is 35.6C, which was set in Southampton in 1978.

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As the week progresses the heat is forecast to build, and peak daily temperatures across much of England and Wales are predicted to be well above 20C all week.

Met Office spokeswoman Nicola Maxey said: "The continent is seeing some very high temperatures, with record-breaking temperatures expected across France, Spain and Belgium.

"We are not seeing temperatures as hot as Europe, but it will be warm for the UK."

She added: "By Saturday we could be looking at 30C in the south, with London looking at 30C but with isolated spots of 33C, 34C or 35C, maybe."

Last year's record for June, a month in which the UK was hit by a series of wildfires, was 33C recorded at Porthmadog in Gwynedd.

Glastonbury festival-goers will be treated to consistently warm and dry weather, with temperatures expected to largely remain in the mid to high-20s throughout the weekend.

On Friday it could get as hot as 31C at the music festival.

Both the UV index and the pollen count are forecast to remain high this week.

Ms Maxey said: "People who suffer from hay fever might feel quite uncomfortable."

The highest temperature of the year so far was 28.8C, recorded in Norfolk on June 2.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: A person enjoying the warm weather on the beach in Brighton, East Sussex. Last year was the fifth warmest for the UK in records dating back more than a century, the Met Office has confirmed.

THE UK'S WARMEST JUNES

Four of the 10 warmest Junes on record have occurred within the past two decades.

The years 2003, 2006, 2017 and 2018 are all in the top 10, according to Met Office data.

In first place is June 1976, which saw an average mean temperature across the UK of 15.0C.

Second is 1940 with 14.9C, while 2018 is third with 14.8C.

The Met Office figures also show that 11 of the top 20 warmest Junes on record have occurred since the year 2003.

Last year saw a very warm June, with a maximum temperature of 33.0C recorded at Porthmadog in Gwynedd on June 28.

The hot spell triggered numerous wildfires across the UK, including in Surrey, on Salisbury Plain and on Winter Hill, north of Manchester.

Railway lines buckled, causing speed restrictions on many routes, while low river levels in parts of Herefordshire resulted in fish stocks being moved to deeper watercourses.

In Worcestershire and Aberdeenshire, councils used gritters to dust some routes as they had become too hot, and in Northern Ireland a hosepipe ban was introduced.

But 1976 remains the year that saw the warmest June on record.

The heatwave that hit the UK in the summer of 1976 was one of the longest in living memory and triggered the most significant drought for at least the last 150 years.

Scorching weather resulted in 15 consecutive days when temperatures reached 32C or higher somewhere in the country.

The year 1976 also saw the highest June temperature ever recorded, when 35.C was measured in Mayflower Park, Southampton, on June 28.

Comparable temperature data from the Met Office begins in 1910.