Record UK temperature for October set at 29.5°C

[torkell]

Record UK temperature for October set at 29.5°C

The record has been broken for the highest temperature recorded in October - at 29.5°C (85.1°F).

It was set at 13:27 in Gravesend, Kent, beating the previous 26-year record of 29.4°C (85.9°F) recorded on 1 October 1985, in the town of March, Cambridge.

Met Office forecaster Andrew Sibley said: "We are looking to see the highest sometime around 3pm, getting up to 30°C."

Edit: new record of 29.9°C, set at 14:42.

Comments

[omgimsuchadork.livejournal.com]

I would kill for that weather right now. It's 16 and rainy here.

[jecook]

So would I- it's a brisk 95°F here in Arizona, and we are still just above normal for the end of september. (shoot, it was still triple digits earlier in the month!)

[omgimsuchadork.livejournal.com]

My dad wanted to move to Arizona when I was in third grade. All this time I've thanked my lucky stars he didn't (I'm from New York, I've never known anything else. I could never leave this city), but today I'm upset that he didn't. XD

[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Cambridge was pretty crazy yesterday. I cycled the route from my house to work, to make sure I had it right before I start there on Monday. Must have drunk a couple of litres of water en route, and still came back dehydrated...