declared a major incident. a number of the calls that we ve been dealing with today have been wildfires or grassfires, where the ground has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warning of what was to come. within an hour, another record had been set at another airport 40.2 celsius at heathrow. by mid afternoon, we got a new provisional heat record for the uk when coningsby in lincolnshire reached 40.3 celsius. and here was a new provisional record for scotland, too, incinerating the previous record. we ve been beating records by 1.5, two degrees, and really quite an extensive region of over 35 degrees, and this is really unusual.
outskirts of the capital. the london fire brigade declared a major incident. a number of the calls that we ve been dealing with today have been wildfires or grassfires, where the ground has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warning of what was to come. within an hour, another record had been set at another airport 40.2 celsius at heathrow. by mid afternoon, we got a new provisional heat record for the uk when coningsby in lincolnshire reached 40.3 celsius. and here was a new provisional record for scotland, too, incinerating the previous record. we ve been beating records by 1.5, two degrees, and really quite an extensive
a number of the calls that we ve been dealing with today have been wildfires or grassfires, where the ground has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warning of what was to come. within an hour, another record had been set at another airport 40.2 celsius at heathrow. by mid afternoon, we got a new provisional heat record for the uk when coningsby in lincolnshire reached 40.3 celsius. and there was a new provisional record for scotland, too, incinerating the previous record. we ve been beating records by 1.5, two degrees, and really quite an extensive region of over 35 degrees, and this is really unusual.
has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warning of what was to come. within an hour, another record had been set at another airport 40.2 celsius at heathrow. by mid afternoon, we got a new provisional heat record for the uk when coningsby in lincolnshire reached 40.3 celsius. and here was a new provisional record for scotland, too, incinerating the previous record. we ve been beating records by 1.5, two degrees, and really quite an extensive region of over 35 degrees, and this is really unusual. these are high temperatures over a broad area in england, so quite surprising. just look how today s temperatures compared to previous records.
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