The Met Office also predictsThe UK is bracing for a dramatic start to October as new weather maps predict heavy rainfall and gusts of up to 60mph set to hit large swathes of the country. The latest forecasts from WX Charts reveal a powerful band of wind sweeping across the UK from the evening of Friday, October 3, with the worst of the weather expected around 7pm. Heavy rainfall is expected across much of the UK with up to 5mm of rain per hour expected in southern Scotland on Friday morning. Into the following week, a broadly westerly type looks most likely, with further weather systems running in from the Atlantic. According to the Met Office, the mean temperature between June 1 and August 31 was 16.10C, which beats the previous record of 15.76C set in 2018.