Wisley in Surrey has recorded no rain for 50 consecutive days - with little rain on the horizon as Matt Taylor from BBC Weather explains.

As the extremely dry spell continues across much of England and Wales, a small village in Surrey has notched up 50 consecutive days without rain this summer. Wisley, most famous for being the site of the 240-acre garden owned by the Royal Horticultural Society, saw 36 continuous dry days back in the hot summer of 1976 - but has comfortably exceeded that number so far this year, with no rainfall since mid-June. It comes after the driest July for England and Wales since Met Office records began 190 years ago, external. Meanwhile, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued further yellow heat health alerts, external for most of England this weekend as the temperatures start to build again. The alerts cover the Humber, West and East Midlands, east of England, London, and the South East and South West from 09:00 BST on Saturday until 21:00 on Tuesday 11 August. High pressure has dominated the weather since late-spring, caused by a large zone of air descending through the atmosphere. This largely acts to prevent rain clouds building up. Only 6.5mm (0.25in) of rainfall was recorded in England and only 9.3mm in Wales - both less than half of the previous records for the nations. As this has been centred across mainland Europe, southern areas of England and Wales have been impacted more by the dry weather. Any rain that has fallen has been in the form of well scattered showers meaning many areas - like Wisley - have completely missed out.