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On 19 July, the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning for parts of the UK. [1] [2] Temperatures soared across the United Kingdom over a weekend which saw all four nations record the hottest day of the year. [3] [4] On 17 July, temperatures reached 31.2 °C (88.2 °F) in County Down, Northern Ireland. [5]
1983 – United Kingdom experienced a heatwave during July 1983. This was the hottest month ever recorded until it was beaten in August 1995. Temperature difference in Europe from the average during the European heat wave of 2003. 1987 – prolonged heat wave from 20 to 31 July in Greece, with more than 1,000 deaths in the area of Athens.
32 mm (1.3 in) Preston, Lancashire: 10 August 1893 Highest 30-min total 80 mm (3.1 in) Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway [7] 26 June 1953 Highest 60-min total 92 mm (3.6 in) Maidenhead, Berkshire: 12 July 1901 Highest 90-min total 117 mm (4.6 in) Dunsop Valley, Lancashire 8 August 1967 Highest 120-min total 193 mm (7.6 in) [8]
England is also sunnier throughout the year than Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the sunniest month is July, with an average of 193.5 hours. It rains on fewer days every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May, averaging 58.4 mm (2.30 in). [3]
The highest temperature recorded in the UK on 11 August was 34.2 °C (93.6 °F) in Wiggonholt, West Sussex. The London Fire Brigade assistant commissioner said that in the first week of August 2021 they attended 42 grassland and wildland fires, whilst in the same week in 2022 they attended 340, an increase of over 700%. [64]
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The Social Security Administration has released their top baby names for 2021 based off of Social Security card registrations for new babies.
September 2023 was the most anomalously warm month, averaging 1.75 °C (3.15 °F) above the preindustrial average for September. [22] The Copernicus Programme (begun 1940) had recorded 13 August 2016, as the hottest global temperature, but by July 2024, that date had been downgraded to the fourth hottest. [23]