The UK has provisionally recorded its highest ever temperature on Tuesday: 102.4 °F (40.2 °C).
The record came on the second day of extreme heat and followed the hottest-ever night in Britain.
The UK's Met Office said Monday night was the hottest ever night recorded in the UK. It cited a minimum temperature of 78.4 °F in Kenly on the outskirts of London, though warned the reading may later be revised. "This unprecedented red warning for extreme heat is a wake-up call about the climate emergency," Prof Hannah Cloke, natural hazards researcher at the University of Reading, said in a Monday statement to the UK's Science Media Center.The current heat wave was caused by hot air heading north from Africa, where it broke a slew of local heat records in European countries like France and Spain, and sparked a wave of devastating wildfires.
Zamora, Spain, registered a record 107.2 °F on Thursday, while two weather stations in Nîmes, France, recorded 104 °F , the highest record for the city in July,
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