Today the UK has seen its warmest day on record as temperatures rose above 40C for the first time. The previous maximum temperature recorded was 38.7C at the Botanic Garden in Cambridge in July 2019.
That outstripped the 38.5C seen in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003. But on Tuesday, Cambridge's record was smashed at Coningsby in Lincolnshire and 33 other locations across England. Five other places levelled the Cambridge record.
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Temperatures in Greater Manchester didn't quite reach those levels, but a new record high was seen for the second day in a row at the Met Office's Rochdale weather station where it reached 37.2C. The University of Manchester also recorded temperatures above 36C at its Whitworth Observatory earlier today.
Here is the full list and the times they exceeded the record from the Met Office:
3.12pm: Coningsby, Lincolnshire – 40.3
12.20pm: Heathrow, west London – 40.2
1.55pm: St James’s Park, central London – 40.2
3.26pm: Gringley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire – 40.1
12.28pm: Kew Gardens, south west London – 40.1
12.39pm: Northolt, west London 40.0
1.29pm: Niab in Cambridge – 39.9
11.06pm: Charlwood, Surrey – 39.9
2.05pm: Cranwell, Lincolnshire – 39.9
3.30pm: Scampton, Lincolnshire – 39.9
2.37pm: Wittering, Cambridgeshire – 39.9
3.02pm: Bramham, West Yorkshire – 39.8
2.55pm: Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire – 39.8
2.07pm: Watnall, Nottinghamshire – 39.8
1.19pm: Bushey Park, Teddington, south west London – 39.6
3.08pm: Topcliffe North Yorkshire – 39.6
1.49pm: Woburn, Bedfordshire – 39.6
2.35pm: Bedford, Bedfordshire – 39.5
3.50pm: Normanby Hall, North Lincolnshire – 39.4
1.59pm: Sheffield, South Yorkshire – 39.4
2.28pm: Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire – 39.4
11.17pm: Wisely, Surrey – 39.3
11.39pm: Chertsey, Surrey – 39.2
1.39pm: Marham, Norfolk – 39.2
2.12pm: Holbeach, Lincolnshire – 39.1
2.01pm: Ryhill, West Yorkshire – 39.1
1.15pm: Writtle, Essex – 39.1
12.47pm: Santon Downham, Suffolk – 39.0
1.08pm: Wellesbourne, Warwickshire – 39.0
1.55pm: Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire – 38.9
12.20pm: Iver, Buckinhamshire – 38.9
1.04pm: Coleshill, Warwickshire – 38.8
1.24pm: High Beach, Essex – 38.8
2.57pm: Leeming, North Yorkshire – 38.8
And the places which levelled with the Botanic Gardens’ 2019 record were:
1.16pm: Benson, Oxfordshire – 38.7
1.56pm: Church Lawford, Warwickshire – 38.7
1.26pm: Coundon, Coventry, West Midlands – 38.7
2.02pm: Houghton Hall, Norfolk – 38.7
1.10pm: Stowe, Buckinghamshire – 38.7
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