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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

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 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.

, 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

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

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

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

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°C was recorded on Saturday,  and 34°C was recorded on Sunday.  Highest temperature on record The highest temperature on record for the UK was 38.7°C, recorded at Cambridge Botanic Garden on the 25th July last year. While the hottest August day on record is 38.5C recorded at Faversham on 10th August

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