i'm @ ben m boulos. thanks i'm @ ben m boulos. for watching bbc news. hello there. in the past few days, the heat has been building. in the next few days, the heat is going to be ebbing away. it was certainly warm, though, in the sunshine in particular on wednesday. the sunniest weather was actually in suffolk. but it wasn't here that we saw the highest temperatures. that was further south in northholt. 28 celsius, the hottest day of the year so far. it was the warmest it's been all year in wales and scotland, 26—27 celsius. now, all that heat was ahead of a band of showers, which for a while were heavy, even with one or two rumbles of thunder. that's been moving up from the southwest, and behind it, we have seen slightly cooler air and much more cloud across southwestern parts of the uk. a very different day here in devon compared with tuesday.