BREAKING: London is right now in the midst of an unfolding emergency, as record breaking temperatures spark fires across the city. Brett_McLeod 9News LATEST:
Temperature records are often broken by a fraction of a degree, in one or maybe two locations.
The Met Office said provisional figures showed the temperature remained above 25C overnight in parts of the country for the first time, and Britain's old temperature record had tumbled before midday.Tuesday's record came as the country sweltered in heat that also scorched mainland Europe for the past week. Travel, healthcare and schools were disrupted in a country not prepared for such extremes.
On Tuesday, a man in his 20s was pulled from Cotswold Water Park, Ashton Keynes, but couldn't be revived, as police responded to a "serious and ongoing incident" near Clacton Pier in Essex. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering — even at the seaside — have driven home concerns about climate change.Many people coped with the heat wave by staying put. Road traffic was down from its usual levels on Monday. Trains ran at low speed out of concern rails could buckle, or did not run at all.
People escape the heatwave by taking a barbecue in a river near the village of Luss in Argyll and Bute on the west bank of Loch Lomond, Scotland. Wildfires raged out of control in France and Spain as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of deaths.
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