1. Friday afternoons on the A31 will start to look like this:

Bournemouth Echo: IN A JAM: Northbound traffic backed up on the A338 Bournemouth Spur Road for three miles after police closed the A31 westbound yesterday
 

2. All of a sudden, the weather forecast will look like this:

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3. We’ll post a picture like this:

Bournemouth Echo: Bournemouth beach last weekend
 

4. And we’ll all scratch our heads wondering why some of those people didn’t just move along a bit:

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5. This will happen. Seriously, people. Pick up your litter. (although you have to also take it home with you, if you happen to be in Christchurch)

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6. And then this.  

Bournemouth Echo: Traffic queuing to get out of Bournemouth
 

7. A beach hut will go on sale for more than the price of a house (Check.)

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8. Someone from a reality TV show will turn up at the beach polo

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9. Our weekend reporters will start to look like this:
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10. We'll get all offended when the national newspapers use Brighton beach instead of Bournemouth to illustrate their hot weather stories

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11. Speaking of which, Bournemouth will be hotter than a country that’s usually really hot


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12. Certain national newspapers will have a headline every day about whether we're all going to get heat exhaustion or drown in a flood.

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13. Someone will set fire to a heath:


Bournemouth Echo: HEATH BLAZE: Fire crews from Swanage  dampening down on Studland Heath
 

14. You’ll be hoping to be doing this: 
 Bournemouth Echo: baddiel
 

when this happens: Bournemouth Echo: Gazza goal

15. But instead you'll be feeling like this when England take on Germany in yet another set of penalties:

16. Of course, there's always Murray:
Bournemouth Echo: Murray wins wimbledon 

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17. The hairy caterpillars will be back.
Bournemouth Echo: Hairy caterpillars can be dangerously irritating

18. And flying ants, and weever fish

Bournemouth Echo: Flying by the seat of my Ants

19. There will probably be a LOT of jellyfish

Bournemouth Echo: BARREL OF LAUGHS: Martin Frith with the barrel Jellyfish

20. There will be a new “hottest day of the year” every week

Bournemouth Echo: Sunbathing weather on hottest day of year so far

21. This will happen:
 

Bournemouth Echo: Pretty Muddy cancer fundraiser lives up to its name

22. And this:

Bournemouth Echo: British Heart Foundation Pier to Pier Swim 2013

23. And then this:
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24. And this, and you'll all be 'oh blah Air Festival blah' until the Red Arrows roar over your head and you'll suddenly remember why it's they're so popular

Bournemouth Echo: Disaster banner red-arrows-banner.png for the homepage

25. And then we'll all be like this, because summer is over.

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Can you think of any we've missed? Let us know in the comments...

And don't forget, all our hot weather stories and info is at bournemouthecho.co.uk/heatwave