UK Set For Hottest Day Ever As 42C Temperatures Are Forecast

The UK looks set for its hottest day ever during 2 day mini heatwave, with temperatures forecast to hit up to 42c

The Met Office has today issued a red extreme warning forMonday and Tuesday in much of England, from London and the south-east up to York and Manchester up in the north as extremely high temperatures are expected.

The current highest temperature ever recorded in the UK is 38.7C, in Cambridge in 2019, with this possibly being broken on just the first day of the heatwave

High temperatures are also forecast across the whole of the UK - with amber warnings in the rest of England, all of Wales, and parts of Scotland.

London is set to be one of the hottest cities in the world on Monday, with temperatures going way above above those in the Western Sahara and the Caribbean.

The hot weather will continue onto Tuesday, and getting hotter- with the overnight temperatures warned to be in the mid twenties - before cooling nicely on Wednesday and into the rest of the week

The red warning instruction was only created last year, and only one year after creation has had to be put in place by the MET Weather office.

Red Weather Warning means "widespread impacts on people and infrastructure" are expected, with "substantial changes in working practices and daily routines" required.