The southeast and East Anglia can expect the thermometers to sizzle with 32°C temperature.

It is expected that warm weather would maintain its stand into the weekend with the mercury rising and breaking the record of the highest level recorded this year at 30.9°C in Gravesend, Kent, on June 27.

While some people enjoy sunny weather but everything comes with a price and experts have cautioned that sizzling temperatures can spell trouble for many when it comes to health.

Wayne Elliott, head of health forecasting at the Met Office, said, “High humidity and the lack of any breeze could make matters worse for people with underlying health problems.”

In more than 70 years, this summer has had one of the driest starts with water levels decreasing in lakes and reservoirs. The first hosepipe ban in about 14 years is being faced by millions of people in the north-west.

Met Office forecaster Helen Chivers said, “East Anglia, south-east England and the Midlands will be dry, sunny and pretty hot from now until the end of the weekend.”

There are attempts to keep the heat wave problem that took about 907 lives in August 2003 at bay. Following which the NHS has issued a warning to kids and the elderly lot to remain indoors and resort to cool temperatures when the temperature is at its peak in daytime.

Weathermen say that temperatures are expected to take a dip in the coming week as rains are expected to arrive on Tuesday and Wednesday.