Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The UK Health Security Agency has issued a level 4 heat-health alert – described as an ’emergency’. Live: UK heatwave: One of hottest days ever with warnings of worse to come Skip to main ...
The hottest day of the year so far has seen the country basking in sizzling temperatures of more than 29C (84.2F). A high of 29.5C (85.1F) was recorded at Northolt in west London on Thursday ...
Highest monthly total (UK national average) [11] 266 hours UK (national average) May 2020 Highest monthly total (England) [2] 383.9 hours Eastbourne, Sussex: July 1911 Highest monthly total (Northern Ireland) [2] 298 hours Mount Stewart, County Down: June 1940 Highest monthly total (Scotland) [2] 329.1 hours Tiree, Argyll & Bute: May 1975
Parts of the UK are expected to sizzle in temperatures of 34C (93.2F) as the hot spell of weather reaches its sweltering peak on Friday. The Met Office said London and potentially some spots in ...
As of 2022, 1976 has the 13th hottest day in UK history. [18] In the Central England Temperature series, 1976 is the hottest summer for more than 350 years. The average temperature over the whole summer (June, July, August) was 17.77 °C (63.99 °F), compared to the average for the unusually warm years between 2001 and 2008 of 16.30 °C (61.34 ...
On 27 May, 81 millimetres (3.2 in) of torrential rain fell at Winterbourne, West Midlands, causing a flash flood. The majority of the country was hot and sunny. [9] May 2018 was one of the warmest and sunniest on record in the UK. [10] Before the heat wave, anticyclonic conditions prevailed across the UK.
The 1906 British Isles heatwave occurred across the British Isles in August and September 1906. The heat wave had a comparable intensity to the 1990 heat wave. [2] From 31 August to 3 September, the temperature in the UK exceeded 32 °C (90 °F) consecutively over much of the UK.
People flocked to parks and beaches to enjoy the balmy conditions as 24.6C was recorded in Kinloss in Scotland on Monday, according to the Met Office.