LONDON temperature

The UK has recorded a temperature of over 40C (104F) for the first time - as the heat continues to rise. Thermometers hit 40.2C at London Heathrow at 12.50 ...

Following several deaths, people are being urged not to cool off in open water. A new record rail temperature of 62C was recorded in Suffolk. "We are building new specifications, creating overhead lines that can withstand higher temperatures. Temperatures look likely to drop across the UK on Wednesday, with heavy showers and thunderstorms causing potential disruption from 13:00 to 23:00 across the south east of England. Mr Kelly told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We don't take decisions like this lightly. "Yesterday was still a busy and long day, and I cannot emphasise enough that people need to follow the same advice as Monday and avoid exposure to the sun," he told the Today programme. "The simple answer is no, the network cannot cope with the heat right now," he told BBC Breakfast. "In 40C heat, tracks can reach 50C, 60C, and even 70C, and there's a severe danger of tracks buckling and a terrible derailing. Our engineers work very hard assessing the capability of the infrastructure facing that record heat, and we decided that we had no choice but to close it." Jake Kelly, the group director for system operation at Network Rail, said it had taken "the difficult and regrettable" decision to close the East Coast Mainline and the Midland Mainline due to record temperatures. Emergency services are experiencing a rise in 999 calls as they face the pressure of the extreme heat, with the World Meteorological Organisation warning that the UK and other affected countries should expect more deaths among the elderly and vulnerable. The extreme warning, indicating a threat to life, is in place in an area stretching between London, Manchester and York. The UK has recorded a temperature of over 40C (104F) for the first time - as the heat continues to rise.

LONDON — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seized swaths of Europe — and the national ...

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The U.K. is set to face the hottest day on record on Tuesday, amid concerns the country's infrastructure is ill-equipped to deal with extreme heat.

“We hoped we wouldn’t get to this situation but for the first time ever we are forecasting greater than 40°C in the U.K.,” Dr. Nikos Christidis, a climate attribution scientist at the Met Office, said. “Because heat is fatiguing and we are in slightly uncharted territory.” Despite the heat, schools are expected to remain open. “This is likely to lead to widespread impacts on people and infrastructure. Therefore, it is important people plan for the heat and consider changing their routines. It’s simple --our infrastructure is not geared up for weather like this.” France could experience its hottest day on record on Monday, according to local media. “Nights are also likely to be exceptionally warm, especially in urban areas,” the Met Office’s Chief Meteorologist Paul Gundersen said in a statement. The previous hottest day on record in the U.K. stands at 38.7 C (101.6 F.) But that is expected to be surpassed on Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 40°C (104 F) in parts of the U.K. The Met Office earlier on Tuesday had provisionally recorded a record-breaking temperature of 39.1 degrees Celsius (102.38 Fahrenheit) In the village of Charlwood, England. Temperatures are likely to rise throughout the day, they said. The heat wave in Britain, which has been linked to climate change, follows a weekend of wildfires and soaring deadly temperatures in France, Portugal and Spain. 🌡️ For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has provisionally been exceeded in the UKLondon Heathrow reported a temperature of 40.2°C at 12:50 today 📈 Temperatures are still climbing in many places, so remember to stay— Met Office (@metoffice) #WeatherAware⚠️ #heatwave #heatwave2022 pic.twitter.com/GLxcR6gjZX July 19, 2022

UK hits record 40C at Heathrow Airport · Train routes cancelled due to the heat · Heatwave prompts focus on climate change promises.

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Temperatures are forecast to soar as high as 40 Celsius — 104 Fahrenheit.

Today, the likelihood is once every 100 to 300 years — and growing. Alexander Farnsworth, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Bristol, was willing to travel back further in time. Then there was the Little Ice Age, from 1300 to 1850, when the Northern Hemisphere grew colder again. Myles Allen, a professor of geoscience at Oxford University, suggested caution. Almost all the highest recorded temperatures have occurred in recent years. This nation was not built to withstand such heat.

The UK has provisionally recorded its hottest day on record, topping 40C for the first time as temperatures...

Travel, healthcare and schools were disrupted in a country not prepared for such extremes. The British Museum planned to close early. But weather forecasts offered some consolation, with heatwave temperatures expected to ease along the Atlantic seaboard Tuesday and the possibility of rains rolling in late in the day. The Met Office said provisional figures showed the temperature remained above 25C overnight in parts of the country for the first time. The mayor of London said the heatwave that has brought temperatures of 40C is causing a "huge surge" in the number of fires in the city. One of the blazes, a grass fire in Wennington on the eastern edge of the city, is being tackled by 100 firefighters.

Britain recorded its hottest-ever day Tuesday, with temperatures hitting a high of 40.2 degrees Celsius (104.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in south England.

It comes as heatwaves grow more common and severe because of human-induced climate change. "We are building new specifications, creating overhead lines that can withstand higher temperatures. Health authorities urged people to take precautions, including staying indoors and drinking plenty of water. It followed a day of extreme heat Monday, during which a high of 38.1C was reached in Suffolk in the east of England — falling just short of the U.K. record. Millions of Brits endured the country's hottest-ever night Monday, with temperatures remaining above 25C in places, surpassing the previous nightly record of 23.9C recorded in Brighton in 1990. LONDON — Britain recorded its hottest-ever day Tuesday, with temperatures hitting a high of 40.2 degrees Celsius (104.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in south England, according to provisional data from the Met Office. Temperatures are forecast to hit as high as 42C in parts of England by Tuesday afternoon, according to the Met Office, which issued a red extreme heat warning. The country is also on high alert for wildfires, with the southeast of England at "very extreme danger," according to the European Forest Fire Information System. - Britain recorded its hottest-ever day Tuesday, with temperatures hitting a high of 40.2 degrees Celsius (104.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in south England, according to provisional data from the Met Office. The figures from the U.K.'s weather service showed Heathrow, near London, hit the new high Tuesday, surpassing the record of 39.1C set earlier in the day in Charlwood, Surrey. A previous high of 38.7C was recorded in 2019. - Temperatures are forecast to surpass 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of England by the afternoon. - Millions of Brits endured the country's hottest-ever night Monday, with temperatures remaining above 25C in places.

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe.

The 40.5 C (104.9 F) measured there by weather service Meteo-France on Tuesday was the station’s second-highest reading ever, topped only by a blistering 42.6 C (108.7 F) in July 2019. A smaller third fire broke out late Monday in the Medoc wine region north of Bordeaux, further taxing resources. The head of the U.N. weather agency expressed hope that the heat gripping Europe would serve as a “wake-up call” for governments to do more on climate change. In Paris, the thermometer in the French capital’s oldest weather station – opened in 1873 – topped 40 C (104 F) for just the third time. In Greece, a large forest fire broke out northeast of Athens, fanned by high winds. Fire Service officials said nine firefighting aircraft and four helicopters were deployed to try to stop the flames from reaching inhabited areas on the slopes of Mount Penteli, some 25 kilometers (16 miles) northeast of the capital. Images showed several houses engulfed in flames as smoke billowed from burning fields in Wennington, a village on the eastern outskirts of London. The intense heat since Monday has damaged the runway at London’s Luton airport, forcing it to shut for several hours, and warped a main road in eastern England, leaving it looking like a “skatepark,” police said. Sales of fans at one retailer, Asda, increased by 1,300%. Electric fans cooled the traditional mounted troops of the Household Cavalry as they stood guard in central London in heavy ceremonial uniforms. The U.K. Met Office weather agency registered a provisional reading of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) at Coningsby in eastern England — breaking the record set just hours earlier. Ever the stalwart, Queen Elizabeth II carried on working. The sweltering weather has disrupted travel, health care and schools.

MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: Follow weather and travel updates as trains are cancelled out of King's Cross - as temperatures hit 28C already as of 8am.

The advice is due to safety concerns, due to fears that train tracks may buckle in the extreme heat. And a lot of our infrastructure is just not build for these types of temperatures.' Fires are also burning in Portugal and Greece. This can allow high pressure to develop over the UK resulting in persistent dry and settled weather. There will be no Thameslink or Great Northern services north of London tomorrow. This has brought scorching temperatures to the UK, France and the Iberian peninsula. This is probably the hottest day in history. He has since been taken to hospital with burns. So you get a severe danger of tracks buckling, what we can't have is trains running over those and a terrible derailing. Commuters have packed into tubes in London despite the heat. Tickets are being accepted on London Buses.' Why IS it so hot?

Mass electricity outages have been reported across London; The record-breaking heat in the UK has caused train tracks to warp in parts; Fires are burning on the ...

With temperatures still rising, train routes from London up the east and west coast of the country were cancelled, electricity companies reported mass outages, and normally busy city centres appeared quiet. In Tabara, locals said the driver of the excavator — a man they identified as Angel Martin Arjona — had been trying to dig a trench between the fire and buildings. Average July temperatures in the UK range from a daily high of 21C to a night-time low of 12C, and few homes or small businesses have air conditioning. A huge chunk of England, from London in the south to Manchester and Leeds in the north, is under the country's first warning of "extreme" heat, meaning there is a danger of death even for healthy people, as the hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moved north. To the east of the capital, a large fire engulfed homes in the village of Wennington, with flames tearing across neighbouring tinder-dry fields and approaching a historic church. A major incident has been declared in London as a number of fires burn across the city's outskirts due to record temperatures as a heatwave continues to hit Europe.

The mayor of London declared a major incident as fire engulfed homes near London and the country broke temperature records with 40C.

Sony Kapoor, a climate and macro-economic professor at European University Institute, said he had long thought that people underestimated the physical impacts of climate change in contemporary times. Network Rail tweeted a number of pictures showing large bends and kinks in rail tracks. Elsewhere large grass areas around the capital were on fire, blowing smoke over major roads and nearby areas.

Britain records its highest temperature on record as fires rage in Western Europe amid sweltering heat.

In neighbouring Portugal, more than 1,000 firefighters were battling five main wildfires, the biggest of which started in the northern municipality of Murça and spread to two nearby municipalities. More than 30 wildfires continued to ravage parts of Spain, with authorities paying special attention to four blazes in the region of Galicia and in Castile and Leon. Meanwhile, authorities reported a man had died at a water park in the Cotswolds, in central England, taking the number of deaths recorded in and around water since Sunday to five as people flocked to the seaside, rivers, lakes and swimming pools in a bid to cool off. The Met Office warned temperatures were “still climbing in many places”, with heat warnings in place for vast swaths of the country, indicating a threat to life. The London Fire Brigade on Tuesday said it had deployed dozens of fire engines to several fires in and around the city, including 30 to a grass fire in east London. Television footage showed one blaze engulfing several homes. London’s firefighting authority has declared a major incident in the British capital in response to the surge in fires amid a record-breaking heatwave in the United Kingdom and Europe.

After what was likely the "warmest night on record in the U.K.," Britain's national weather service has warned that temperatures will once again soar ...

It said it was seeing an increase in the number of patients experiencing heat exposure. “I know that on days like today when temperatures are at a record high, it might look appealing to jump in and cool off in rivers, reservoirs, lakes or other open water," he said. In New Eltham, an area of southeast London, a building that appeared to have a business on the ground floor and residential space above could be seen burning in video shared on social media. As a result, it has said that "substantial changes in working practices and daily routines will be required." Residents in the area were being evacuated Tuesday evening and 15 crews from around the county were working to quell the fire. And in Portugal, where wildfires are also raging, more than 650 have died amid soaring temperatures. One woman and a man have been hospitalized with smoke inhalation in the blaze, the London Fire Brigade said. London has cool spaces, meaning indoor and outdoor areas where city dwellers can find respite from the heat. "The planet is hotter than it's been for 125,000 years. "We are not ready on this at all," Miliband said. “It’s certainly going to be going down in the record books.” "This is critical: @LondonFire is under immense pressure," Mayor Sadiq Khan wrote in a tweet.

The Met Office tweeted: "For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has provisionally been exceeded in the UK.

T. he UK has recorded its warmest night on record from Monday into Tuesday, according to provisional figures from the Met Office. Temperatures did not fall ...

Transport for London (TfL) said the capital’s rail network would be running a reduced service due to safety restrictions put into place to deal with the heat. The UK has experienced its warmest night on record, according to provisional Met Office figures. Rail operator Thameslink is warning people to not travel on routes to the north of London on Tuesday. He told people to “apply common sense” and “depending on the nature of your journey and reason for it you might want to consider rearranging your day around it”. A sign has been posted at the entrance to the building in central London explaining the problem. Temperatures have been hitting the mid-30s by 10am on Tuesday, according to the Met Office. The Supreme Court has been closed to visitors because of the temperatures and an air-conditioning fault. By 10am it had also exceeded 30C in parts of the UK, including 35.1C at Kew Gardens and 34.5C at Heathrow, according to the Met Office. 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. he UK has recorded its warmest night on record from Monday into Tuesday, according to provisional figures from the Met Office. The warmest night on record is set to turn into the hottest day in London with temperatures predicted to hit 40C amid growing travel chaos. The mercury was showing 35.1C at Kew Gardens by 10am, according to the Met Office