Rain forecast for London 2012 Ceremony

While the sun is also shining on Team GB’s cyclists when their historic leads to the Tour de France, there's a risk of showers for London on the day of the Olympic gap ceremony.While Danny Boyle’s formidable plans for the gap ceremony embrace clouds that may rain down over the stadium in Stratford, east London, fingers had been crossed that the much-anticipated event would otherwise keep dry.After weeks of wet weather the outlook has brightened for the approaching week.Pictures from Cardiff and London as Olympic countdown continues The mercury is about to rise to 29C (84F) or maybe 30C (86F) tomorrow, and can keep within the high 20s for the remainder of the week, however forecasters said temperatures are set to fall once more by Friday.

Billy Payne, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: “Today is wanting to induce up to 27C (80.6F) or 28C (82.4F) within the South East and it'll be dry, hot and sunny in most elements of England and Wales.

“But there'll be plenty of cloud across southern Scotland and Cumbria, with persistent rain.“Tomorrow are going to be a lot of of a similar and will rise up to 29C (84F) or 30C (86F) within the London space.“Towards the top of the week it's getting to get plenty cooler and a lot of unsettled.“It appearance like there’s a risk of serious showers, definitely within the south-east corner of the country.“Temperatures ought to still be somewhere round the mid-twenties on Friday, and it's probably to be cooler over the weekend.”Widespread flooding, the wettest amount of April to June on record and a lot of serious rain up to now this month are caused by the jet stream settling unusually way south.

But forecasters said it's on its manner back north, resulting in a lot of ancient summer weather in the week.Bookies are taking bets on what consecutive few weeks can bring, with William Hill providing odds of 3/1 that it's raining throughout the gap ceremony and 66/1 that the Olympic flame is extinguished whereas te than 100F (38C) are going to be registered within the UK whereas the Games are going down.William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: “There will be very little doubt that the British weather can have its say at the Olympics, possibly it'll be we have a tendency tot however we may well be in for a scorcher.”