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Met Office

UK national weather service · National weather authority — in 3 stories, 1 quote on record.

What they said verbatim

“The last time we saw temperatures above 36C in August was 2020 when 36.4C was recorded at Heathrow and Kew Gardens.”
BBC Weather · UK braces for fifth heatwave as amber alerts cover nearly all England

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