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The fire burned for four days before it was extinguished. Several government departments and agencies asked the Met Office to provide guidance on the smoke plume — including Defra, the Cabinet Office, various emergency services and the Health Protection Agency. Information on the transport

. Fires depend on a combination of available fuel, fire weather conditions, and an ignition source, either by human influence or lightning strikes. Vegetation provides the fuel for fires, and both the amount of vegetation and its level of dryness are important. Moist, live vegetation burns less

The warmest late May Bank Holiday Weekend on record is officially 32.8 °C, recorded on Bank Holiday Monday itself on 29th May 1944 in Horsham (West Sussex), Tunbridge Wells  (Kent) and Regents Park (London) just a few days ahead of D-Day. Martin Young, Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office

Tuesday 6 June 1944 (D-Day) Weather chart for 1300 UTC on 6 June 1944 General summary Most places dawned cloudy with continuing showers across northern and eastern districts. In southern Britain it was dry with a few breaks to allow some bright or sunny spells to develop across South West England

As low pressure clears into Europe, Arctic maritime air will sweep across the UK, bringing a fine, sunny and cold day for most on Saturday, with a widespread frost to start. However, the settled weather will be short-lived. Cloud will increase from the west as the next Atlantic system approaches

take water with you when travelling and keep up to date with weather forecasts. "It’s also worth remembering to think about practical steps to keep homes cool during the day as this can aid sleeping at night and give the body time to recover from the heat.” After Thursday’s peak heat temperatures

Tuesday 2 June 1953 (Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II) UK weather chart for 12:00 UTC on 2 June 1953 Brief summary of the weather for London A mostly cloudy day with rain or showers. A gentle to moderate north-westerly breeze. Maximum temperature well below average for early June. Data from Kew

, and suppression), and changes in these factors are leading to shifts in fire patterns in many regions of the world.   It is widely known that the overall global burned area is decreasing, as explored by one report from Science magazine in 2017. This is mainly driven by land-use change from natural savannah

, and sometimes it will creep further inland to affect, say, parts of the Midlands and southern England, East Wales perhaps. But it will ebb and flow, and by day it will tend to burn back to the immediate coast over the next few days. So Friday into Saturday and Sunday, we’ll see cloudy conditions

of the other autographic devices work in a very similar way although one significant exception are sunshine cards where the mark left on the card is produced by a Campbell Stokes sunshine recorder which focuses sunlight through a glass sphere and uses the resulting beam to burn a line into the card during