UK heatwave: Wales’ hottest temperature record broken twice in one day after reaching 37.1C
The Independent says Temperature records were broken twice in one day in Wales on Monday, after temperatures spikes at 37.1C in Flintshire surpassing a record set just hours earlier.
The Met Office said on Monday that temperatures had reached 35.3C in Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth in west Wales, exceeding the previous record set in August 1990 by just point one of a degree.
Later it updated its alert to say Hawarden in Flintshire, near the English town of Cheshire, has recorded 37.1C.
“This is the highest air temperature ever recorded in Wales,” it said in a Tweet.
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