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May heat record broken for second day in a row
Met Office forecasters said 97 monitoring sites reached 30C as heat-health alerts and travel warnings remained in place.
- Temperatures at Kenley Airfield in south London remained above 21.3C overnight Monday, marking a 'tropical night' that broke the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May for the second consecutive day.
- Kew Gardens in south-west London provisionally registered the UK's all-time hottest meteorological spring temperature at 34.8C on Monday, contrasting sharply with last week's lows of minus 5C in Scotland and daytime peaks of about 14C to 15C.
- Ninety-Seven Met Office monitoring sites reached or surpassed 30C on Monday, with 12 locations topping May records across Suffolk, Berkshire and Warwickshire, including Heathrow at 34.4C and Northolt at 34.2C.
- The UK Health Security Agency issued amber health alerts for five regions, warning of potential 'rise in deaths,' while South East Water apologised and distributed bottled water to about 502 customers facing outages and low pressure.
- Tuesday could see temperatures climb to 35C or even 36C across southern England and Wales, as Met Office senior forecaster Greg Dewhurst warned climate change is accelerating heatwave development, making once one-in-a-hundred year events now one-in-33 occurrences.
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