The United Kingdom crushed its record for highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday, melting a portion of the tarmac at London Luton Airport.
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A scorching heat wave broiled much of mainland Europe, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and fierce wildfires. Tuesday's highs will be "unprecedented," said Met Office forecaster Rachel Ayers, adding temperatures would rise to as high as 104 or 105.8 F in parts of England in the afternoon.
The Meteorological Office, U.K.'s weather office, announced a temperature of 40.2 Celsius (104.4 Fahrenheit) was provisionally recorded Tuesday in London. A temperature of 39.1 C (102.4 F) was provisionally recorded earlier in the day in the English village of Charlwood in Surrey.
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Ha! Try 116 like we had in the Pac NW last year… Omgggggg the airport! The plants!!! 😱
All the climate change deniers will tell you it’s just summer and get over it.
It’s just summer get over it
Crawley UK
Record High: 39°C (102°F)
on August 8, 1975
@aerodicus
40.3 today
Summer in the northern hemisphere. Weird. And taking an ambient temp around a large patch of concrete/tarmac creates what might be called a unique environment. Just sayin
It’s 113 degrees at my house right now @ 6:00pm CDT……….OKC OKla…. USA
Lmao, what kinda asphalt do they use in Britain?
The kind that conveniently melts on command, like when they run out of pilots…
105? Lol…
Im in Arizona, 104 doesnt seem so bad,