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downpours across parts of northern England and Scotland. Weather data Heathrow, Greater London recorded a maximum temperature of 36.7 °C, the highest July temperature on record for the UK, and just ahead of the previous July record 36.5 °C at Wisley, Surrey on Record breaking heat and sunshine - July 2006

Warming across the country has, however, not been even with some regions experiencing more rapid change than others. Heatwave thresholds in 8 counties in a band from Surrey to east Yorkshire are now changing.   Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre

and was likely responsible for a rise in registered deaths in England and Wales during the week 1 . Many beaches became exceptionally busy – for example in Sussex and Dorset. Firefighters tackled a large heathland fire in Surrey. The hot weather also saw the development of some impactful thunderstorms

35 °C in places on the 19th when new UK and Welsh temperature records for July were set. The value of 36.5 °C recorded at Wisley, Surrey on 19th overturned the UK record for July of 35.9 °C set on 3 July 1976 at Cheltenham, Glos. Hot weather persisted for much of the following week, particularly

joined the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2009, where she worked in the Regional climate modelling team until September 2012. Prior to that, Chloe worked for the Environment Agency in Flood Forecasting. As an undergraduate Chloe studied Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Surrey. Chloe also has an MSc in Weather, Climate and Modelling from the University of Reading.

Airport Jersey St Helier Wisley (Surrey) Guernsey Airport Maximum temperatures - 5 August 2003 Maximum temperatureExtra information (°C) New station record beating the previous high of 34.5 °C on 3 August 1990, using digital 34.8 data records back to 1957. 34.2 Station record was broken on 9 August

flooding. The storm of 23 to 24 December caused widespread flooding across southern England, stretching through Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, and extensive power cuts, with around 50,000 homes remaining without power through the Christmas period. In Devon, a man was swept away in a river

of Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire as well as the Midlands and northern England. Figure 3. Visible satellite imagery for 1244z on 24 May 1989. There were reports of heavy rain and flooding across many areas with some places having well over two inches of rainfall – Oxford and Basingstoke both reported

for some inland locations. On 23 November the UK recorded its wettest calendar day – as an average across the whole country – since 3 October 2020. Storm Conall brought a further 30 to 50mm of rain falling on already very wet ground in a swathe along the South Coast from south Devon to Surrey

Temperature 27.8 °C at Greenwich, Royal Observatory and South Kensington (both London) Lowest Minimum Temperature 6.1 °C at Wick (Caithness) and Nairn (Nairnshire) Most Rainfall 91.2 mm at Banstead, The Hall (Surrey) Most Sunshine 13.8 hours at Jersey, St Aubin (Channel Islands) National Meteorological