The Met Office confirms that Scotland is experiencing a heatwave, with high temperatures set to continue.
On Sunday, Auchincruive was the only place in Scotland that met technical heatwave conditions.Threshold temperatures must be recorded across a wider number of weather stations to be considered a heatwave.Cooler temperatures have been recorded across northern Scotland.A heatwave is an extended period of hot weather exceeding the expected conditions of the area at that time of year.
In the UK, a location must record daily maximum temperatures which meet or exceed the heatwave temperature threshold for that time of year at least three days in a row. Heatwaves are extreme weather events, but research shows that climate change is making these events more likely. It is not possible for meteorologists to tie single weather events such as the current heatwave to climate change.Britain has been slowly getting warmer since the 19th Century. In the past three decades, the UK has become 0.9C warmer.
The 10 hottest years since 1884 have all happened since 2002. And none of the coldest years has been recorded this century.in the middle of July last year. This broke the previous record of 32.9C recorded during the 2003 European heatwave.
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