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of more persistent and often heavy rain affecting parts of the Midlands and southern England on the 23rd. On the 20th, surface water flooding was reported from Sussex to Gloucestershire, with some leisure centres, schools and recycling centres forced to close due to flooding. A section of Cheltenham

and Epsom, Surrey); this UK record stood for nearly 80 years until 3 August 1990 (37.1 °C at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) which was broken again on 10 August 2003 (38.5 °C at Faversham, Kent). As this was a short duration heatwave, impacts for the UK were limited, but the heat may have contributed

at a number of long-running weather stations across central and eastern England (Table 6). The most significant September hot spell in observational records was 1 to 2 September 1906, when temperatures exceeded 32 °C as far apart as Cheltenham (Gloucestershire), Macclesfield (Cheshire), Cromer