UK records its highest ever May temperature

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1. Preliminary record now up to 34.8 C (94.6 F)

Met Office: 34.8C would be exceptional in mid-summer let alone in May

Following the news that 34.8C has been recorded at London's Kew Gardens, the Met Office says this is a temperature that would "exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May".

With this latest reading, it says, today is now the hottest May day on record by a full two degrees Celsius, after the previous 32.8C record was broken earlier today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1w24llvj48t?post=asset%3A367742e8-184c-4255-b975-88480fa2ca5f#post

Plus joint warmest in Ireland:

It’s been the joint warmest May day on record across the island of Ireland, too, as temperatures climbed to 28.4C in Oak Park, County Carlow.

That matches the previous May record of 28.4C set in County Kerry in 1997.

Irish weather service, Met Éireann, is expecting similar temperatures on Tuesday with a chance of a new temperature record being set.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1w24llvj48t?post=asset%3Aad24d1f1-14c0-4cad-96bc-a4d0ad23d1ec#post