UK temperatures break May records for second day in a row

The UK grounds for the hottest May time has been breached for a 2nd consecutive day, arsenic parts of London surpassed 35C connected Tuesday.

Kew Gardens successful south-west London recorded a provisional somesthesia of 35.1C, beating Monday's 34.8C record-high successful the aforesaid place.

"Until yesterday, the highest somesthesia successful May was 32.8C, but we've present exceeded that grounds connected consecutive days by a afloat 2 degrees Celsius," the Met Office posted connected X.

Wales besides broke May records for the 2nd consecutive day, arsenic provisional temperatures reached 32.3C astatine Cardiff's Bute Park, surpassing Monday's 32.2C astatine Hawarden Airport successful Flintshire.

Before Monday and Tuesday's record-breaking highs, May's warmest time successful the UK was 32.8C successful 1922 and 1944.

Six amber vigor wellness alerts issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) screen overmuch of England and volition beryllium progressive until Thursday.

The alert warns important impacts are apt crossed wellness and societal attraction services owed to precocious temperatures, including accrued request connected each wellness and societal attraction services.

Much of England and Wales are successful an authoritative heatwave arsenic of Tuesday. A determination has to scope a threshold somesthesia - 25C for bluish and occidental areas and 28C successful London and Home Counties - for 3 days successful a row.

This aboriginal play vigor is accordant with the semipermanent inclination of rising temperatures due to the fact that of human-caused clime change.

The Met Office's main operational meteorologist Dan Suri besides said the precocious temperatures were owed to "the power of warmth gathering nether an country of precocious unit adjacent the UK."

The vigor has besides affected passengers travelling connected trains up and down the county, with Network Rail imposing a bid of velocity restrictions connected tracks to support trains safe.

National obstruction said vigor tin origin overhead lines to grow and sag, line-side fires and besides rails to buckle.

South Western Railway (SWR) warned bid services moving crossed its full web whitethorn beryllium cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes oregon revised owed to issues including heat-related velocity restrictions.

High Track temperatures disrupted LNER services betwixt Peterborough and London Kings Cross.

There was besides large disruption to Great Northern, Thameslink and Southern networks.

Meanwhile successful Kent, dozens of homes person been near with small oregon nary h2o for the 3rd day.

The outages began connected Saturday and peaked connected Sunday erstwhile astir 800 properties successful the villages of Charing, Challock and Molash were incapable to get water.

South East Water (SEW) said teams were moving hard to reconstruct drinking h2o supplies crossed the portion pursuing "high request during the exceptionally blistery weather", which led to "storage reservoirs moving debased successful parts of Kent".

As exceptionally lukewarm outpouring temperatures deed during the Bank vacation agelong weekend, 4 radical died astatine English swimming spots.

On Monday, a 13-year-old lad died getting into trouble portion successful a reservoir successful Halifax, West Yorkshire and astatine Kingsbury Water Park successful Warwickshire a assemblage of a teenage miss was recovered successful the evening.

Another assemblage was recovered from the h2o of Rother Valley Country Park successful South Yorkshire successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday greeting aft a teenage lad went missing.

At Tregirls Beach adjacent Padstow, Cornwall, a antheral successful his 60s died connected Monday aft moving into the oversea to assistance 2 relatives who got into trouble connected the Cornwall beach, constabulary said.

The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) has urged radical to enactment harmless and warned that "warmer upwind unluckily sees an summation successful accidental drownings" and portion aerial temperatures are hot, h2o temperatures stay precise cold.

The Met Office besides warned radical of imaginable "cold shock" arsenic oversea and different unfastened h2o temperatures are overmuch little than the highs being felt during the heatwave.

The forecaster shared a representation showing that adjacent successful the south-east of England, oversea temperatures are astir 14C.

The Met Office besides issued a yellowish upwind informing for thunderstorms successful England from 15:00 BST to 22:00 connected Tuesday.

However, the thunderstorms are apt to beryllium precise isolated that "could bring disruption to a fewer places", the Met Office forecaster said.

The upwind work said the informing affects the East Midlands, East of England, parts of London and south-east England, parts of north-west England, south-west England, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and Humber.

It added the informing had a "very debased likelihood and a mean impact".