UK breaks June heat record for third consecutive day as 37.3C recorded

A 13-year-old boy drowned in open water during the heatwave; NHS services overwhelmed with heat-related illnesses and emergency calls; hundreds of schools forced to close affecting students.

For three consecutive days, the United Kingdom rewrote its own history, each afternoon hotter than the one before, until Suffolk reached 37.3 degrees Celsius on Friday — erasing a record that had stood for half a century. Across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, the heat dome offered no escape, not even in the small hours of the night. The disruption to hospitals, schools, and transport was measurable; the loss of a thirteen-year-old boy to open water was not. Scientists remind us that this is not an aberration but a direction of travel, and that the records broken this week will

UK breaks June heat record for third consecutive day as 37.3C recorded

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