The Met Office has said provisional figures showed the UK experienced the warmest night on record from Monday into Tuesday. The sweltering night came after a scorching hot day yesterday with the mercury predicted to hit 40C today.
In a tweet, the UK’s national weather service announced: “It has provisionally been the warmest night on record in the UK. Temperatures didn’t fall below 25C in places, exceeding the previous highest daily minimum record of 23.9C, recorded in Brighton on 3rd August 1990.”
A graphic accompanying the tweet showed the highest overnight minimum temperatures recorded were 24.5C in Aberporth, west Wales, 25.8C in Kenley, in the London Borough of Croydon, and 25.9C in Emley Moor, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Britons are set to melt on the hottest UK day on record as temperatures are predicted to hit 40C amid growing travel chaos. It comes after the mercury peaked at 38.1C in Santon Downham, Suffolk on Monday, making it the hottest day of the year and the third hottest day on record, after 38.7C in Cambridge in 2019 and 38.5C in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003.
The mercury will sizzle at possible highs of 41C in isolated areas on Tuesday, making the country hotter than Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados – with rail users warned of delays, cancellations and changes to train services.
