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Cambridge Botanic Garden Weather Station where a temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) was recorded in the 2019 European heat wave. The United Kingdom weather records show the most extreme weather ever recorded in the United Kingdom, such as temperature, wind speed, and rainfall records. Reliable temperature records for the whole of the United ...
Brighton (/ ˈ b r aɪ t ən / ⓘ BRY-tən) is a seaside resort in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, 47 miles (76 km) south of London. [1] Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Brighton and Hove is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Brighton & Hove. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
West Sussex is the sunniest county in the United Kingdom, according to Met Office records. Over the 29 years to 2011 it averaged 1902 hours of sunshine per year. [20] Sunshine totals are highest near the coast with Bognor Regis often having the highest in mainland England, including a total of 2237 hours in 1990. Mean annual temperature for ...
The coastal towns of Sussex with neighbouring Hampshire and south Kent including the settlements that make up the Brighton and Hove built-up area are the sunniest places in the United Kingdom. [3] The coast has consistently more sunshine than the inland areas: sea breezes, blowing off the sea, tend to clear any cloud from the coast. [4]
The 1995 British Isles heatwave occurred between late July and late August. It was part of one of the warmest summers recorded in the UK, [2] and one of the warmest Augusts ever recorded in many locations around the UK, as well as being one of the driest summers ever recorded in the UK; many weather stations recorded the summer of 1995 as drier than, or comparable with, the summer of 1976. [2]
The United Kingdom heatwave of 1911 was a particularly severe heatwave and associated drought. Records were set around the country for temperature in England , including the highest accepted temperature, at the time, of 36.7 °C (98.1 °F), [ 2 ] only broken 79 years later in the 1990 heatwave , which reached 37.1 °C (98.8 °F). [ 3 ]
During the 1990 heat wave in the United Kingdom a weather station recorded a temperature of 37.1 °C (98.8 °F) for Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, [2] the highest temperature ever known in Britain, one full Fahrenheit degree above the previous record, set in 1911.