Monday was the most well liked day of the yr up to now within the UK after temperatures reached 34.8C in Cambridge, the Met Workplace has confirmed.
In keeping with an replace from the climate company, yesterday’s temperatures rose above 2024’s earlier peak of 32C recorded on July 30 and marked the most well liked day seen within the UK since August 2022.
A Met Workplace spokesperson famous that temperatures had solely reached ranges recorded on Monday in 11 of the final 63 years.
“It has been the most well liked day of 2024 up to now with 34.8C recorded in Cambridge at present,” the Met Workplace mentioned on Monday evening on social media platform X. “Provisionally that is solely the eleventh yr since 1961 temperatures as excessive as this have been recorded. Eight of these years have been since 2000 and 6 of them have been within the final decade.”
Nevertheless, temperatures on Monday remained effectively beneath the 40.3C recorded on 19 July 2022, which marked a document excessive for the UK.
The temperature document comes only a few weeks after the Met Workplace confirmed in its annual State of the UK Local weather Report that 2023 was the UK’s second warmest yr since data started in 1884, with the warmest ever yr occurring solely a yr earlier in 2022.
The new climate comes as campaigners name for better motion to spice up the UK’s resilience to excessive climate occasions predicted to turn into extra intense and frequent over time forward as local weather impacts worsen.
Analysis revealed this morning from the Heat This Winter marketing campaign, for instance, means that as much as 4.5 million folks within the UK might be prone to over-heating throughout warmth waves.
Folks aged between 18 and 34, these from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic teams, and personal renters have been extra prone to expertise warmth associated ill-health, based on the examine.
As such, the group is asking for the general public to be given better monetary assist to spend money on a variety of measures designed to make their houses extra resilient to warmth waves, reminiscent of insulation, air flow and warmth pumps.
Final week, the UK Well being Safety Company issued yellow well being alerts for eight of 9 areas of England. These are issued during times of sizzling or chilly climate which can be prone to have an effect on those that are notably weak, together with the aged and people with present well being circumstances. The alerts are set to run out at 9am on Wednesday.
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