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A recording of 38.7°C at Cambridge Botanic Garden on Thursday 25 July has become the highest temperature officially recorded in the UK.

high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week, the UK joins Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in breaking national temperature records.   The recording was taken at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden - which houses a Met Office climate observation site

of 38.7 °C at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on July 25. The paper has been published in the Royal Meteorological Society journal Weather and can be read here.

nights later in the month pulled the night time temperatures closer to average. The coldest night reaching -6.2°C (Cromdale, Moray 18 April 2017), April has been a warmer than average month. On 9 April 25.5°C was recorded at Cambridge, the warmest day of the year so far. Overall the UK mean temperature

of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. Front image: Met Office forecast data of Typhoon Megi in 2016 Produced by the Met Office. Met Office and the Met Office logo are registered trademarks. © Crown Copyright 2016, Met Office 16/0840

of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 271-359. Golding, N. and R. Betts (2008) Fire risk in Amazonia due to climate change in the HadCM3 climate model: Potential interactions with deforestation (2008), Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 22.

Observatory (London) 36.3 Station record was broken on 10 August 2003, see table below. Wisley (Surrey) 36.1 Station record was broken on 10 August 2003, see table below. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Station record was broken on 10 August 2003, see table 36.1 (London) below. Cambridge Guildhall Station

, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity, in Climate change 2021: The physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK: Classification: Cambridge In-Confidence University Press: 923–1054

of the properties of highly aged biomass burning aerosol transported over the southeast Atlantic during CLARIFY-2017 Career background Kate graduated from St Andrews University in 1998 with a degree in Chemistry. From there, she moved to Cambridge to study for a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry. Her project

of weather systems and informs decisions made in operational modelling. It has led to many collaborative activities, such as Newton Institute programme (Cambridge) on Atmosphere - Ocean Dynamics and membership of an NSF-funded focused research group on Optimal transportation, its geometry

recorded in the UK is 38.7°C set in Cambridge in July 2019. This prompts the question of whether exceeding 40°C is now within the possibilities of the UK climate. High emmissions scenario The study suggests the current chance of seeing days above 40°C is extremely low, however by 2100 under a high