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A significant heatwave affected the UK in July 2022. The UK recorded its hottest-ever temperature of 40.3°C in Coningsby in Lincolnshire. According to the Met Office, over 34 locations exceeded the UK’s previous temperature record of 38.7°C in 2019.
Aug 10, 2022 · The UK has subsequently seen heatwaves in 1995, 1997, 2003, 2006 and 2018 and recorded a new all-time highest temperature – 38.7C in Cambridge Botanic Garden in July 2019 – but the summer of...
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In the past three decades the country has become 0.9C warmer on average, according to the UK State of the Climate report in 2020. Nine out of ten of the hottest days ever recorded in the UK...
Jul 15, 2022 · The heatwave saw a then-record temperature of 35.9C set in Cheltenham on 3 July, which remains one of the hottest days on record. Meanwhile, the heatwave saw a record June temperature - 35.6C...
Jul 13, 2018 · Alongside the winters of 1947 and 1962-3, the summer of 1976 is part of Britain's cultural weather memory, when temperatures reached 32°C or higher for 15 consecutive days and triggered one...
Jul 17, 2013 · In between much of the UK endured the longest drought and hottest summer on record. It had been the first year where fields of oilseed rape became common and they had already brought their ...
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Jul 19, 2022 · With temperatures topping 40C in London on Tuesday, Britain is experiencing its hottest day since records began, sizzling in weather hotter than Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados.
