UK weather: Joint heat record set - but sunny spell over for some

The associated hottest somesthesia recorded truthful acold successful 2023 was deed connected Sunday - but conditions are already connected the turn.

Coningsby successful Lincolnshire reached 32.2C, matching the aforesaid heights seen successful Chertsey, Surrey, connected 10 June.

Meanwhile, thunderstorms lashed areas crossed bluish England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and the week up looks overmuch cooler crossed the UK.

BBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker said Sunday's vigor "marked the extremity of our existent blistery spell".

He continued: "The extremity of the period looks considerably cooler, but we're inactive connected people for 1 of the warmest Junes successful the UK since records began.

"Some parts of England person been experiencing temperatures akin to the Mediterranean for implicit 2 weeks.

"The upwind has been consistently warmer than mean crossed different parts of Europe arsenic well."

The Met Office said Sunday's highest somesthesia astatine Coningsby was registered successful the aforesaid determination arsenic the UK's hottest ever day, erstwhile 40.3C was recorded connected 19 July past twelvemonth during an utmost heatwave.

Amber upwind warnings for thunderstorms were successful spot crossed overmuch of the northbound of the state during the afternoon, with galore reporting downpours and hail.

But portion achromatic clouds rumbled their mode towards the northbound eastbound of Scotland and retired to sea, temperatures continued to soar successful the south.

London Fire Brigade said 10 occurrence engines and astir 70 firefighters were sent to tackle a writer blaze which had engulfed 2 hectares of onshore astatine Rammey Marsh successful Enfield, successful northbound London.

And New Wimbledon Theatre was forced to cancel a show of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory the Musical owed to the "impact connected moving conditions connected stage".

It stayed blistery - and mercifully adust - for festivalgoers astatine Glastonbury, but the representation for the week up is much mixed.

Monday is expected to beryllium breezy, with unreality and showers successful the northbound and westbound of the country, and much unsettled conditions forecast successful the days up for many.