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Record temperature in the local area broken by 3.8c

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Vincent
Published date10 August 2022
Publication titleLoughborough Echo
The 19th of the month saw temperatures soar to 39.4c at Sutton Bonington and 39.2c at both Hinckley and Mountsorrel. At Leicestershire's other MET Office recording site at Market Bosworth temperatures reached 38.3c or 101f

It is the first day that 100f has ever been recorded in Leicestershire. Market Bosworth's previous record was set in July 2019 at 34.5c but this was smashed by 3.8c - a quite extraordinary figure.

I never live to of 40c climate to be our must

The exceptionally hot air was drawn north from the Sahara desert. As it passed through an arid France and Spain the airmass remained extremely hot and it reached us virtually unchanged.

Stations in Rutland recorded 40c and at Coningsby in Lincolnshire the UK record of 40.3c was reached. That night the 19th also saw temperatures stay above 21.3c at Market Bosworth making it Leicestershire's hottest night on record.

In Hinckley the temperature only dropped to 21.9c making this Hinckley's hottest night on record too.

These are also known as tropical nights as temperatures stay above 20c.

The rest of the month was also very warm but not as hot. Average July afternoon temperatures were recorded at 24.4c with night time temperatures being logged at 13.8c.

The overall mean for the month was 19.2c which was 1.8c above normal. Only five July months have been warmer since 1836 and the last three 2006, 2018 and now 2022 have occurred in the last 16 years another indicator of where global temperatures are going!

thought I would temperatures in the UK but change appears accelerating and response to it be rapid

Scientists have calculated that daily temperatures of 40c as we have now experienced are impossible in the UK without man induced climate change being a factor.

In three of the last four years 100f has been reached nationally and this year very extensively.

Steve Jackson at his Coventry station has said that there has been an increase of 1.5c in July average temperatures in the last 100 years locally with an average of 17.6c between 2011-2020 compared to 16.1c between 1911-1920. Most months of the year have now seen similar warming...

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