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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 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

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

low cloud quickly burned off, and the 24th was also mostly warm and sunny but cloud and a few showers developed from late a ernoon. The cloud and light showers cleared early on the 25th leaving another sunny day. The 26th-28th were mostly warm and sunny, but there were a few well-scattered showers

in the 1980s and 1990s. This earlier period also included among the most severe storms experienced in the UK in the observational records including the ‘Burns’ Day Storm’ of 25 January 1990, the ‘Boxing Day Storm’ of 26 December 1998 and the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987. None of the individual storms

not know that UV rays make you burn and have strong links to cancer 15% do not know you can still be exposed to UV rays on cool or cloudy days 46% incorrectly think you can feel UV rays when the sun is strong (you cannot feel UV rays) 21% do not realise you are at most risk from UV rays between May

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

, Met Office, Data: JMA 8 November 2019 Extensive and devastating wildfires burned in eastern Australia for most of November (and beyond). This is a true colour image of the region on 8th November from NASA's Aqua satellite. The image is dominated by the brown smoke plumes from numerous fires. Also

, 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

. 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