The UK set a provisional June temperature record of 37.7C on Friday – even higher than previously thought – as parts of the UK sweltered in a punishing heatwave.
The Met Office said an update received over the weekend of 37.7C measured at Lingwood in Norfolk, east of Norwich, beats the 37.3C recorded at Santon Downham in Suffolk on Friday and – subject to verification – would be a new June temperature record for the UK.
It would beat the previous June record for the UK of 35.6C dating back to 1976, by more than 2C, which is significant given such records have usually been broken by only a fraction of a degree in the past.
Scientists warned on Friday that this current heatwave would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, with human-driven climate change fuelling more intense and frequent extreme heat events.
