The UK experienced its highest summertime temperature of 40.2C on Tuesday, according to the Met Office, as a heatwave gripped the country and caused widespread travel disruption.
The provisional recording at London’s Heathrow airport at lunchtime eclipsed the previous all-time high of 38.7C, which was set in Cambridge in 2019. Forecasters warned that temperatures were expected to climb still further during the course of the day.
The record was set after transport secretary Grant Shapps warned that it could take “decades” to make Britain’s transport system more resilient to extreme heatwaves.
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