UK climate: Beaches packed as seventh day of ‘unprecedented’ heatwave hits Kent coast

The UK has had its seventh day of consecutive 30C warmth in September, based on Met Office readings.

It comes after Saturday was provisionally the most popular day of the 12 months to date – with highs of 33.2C (92F) recorded at London’s Kew Bridge.

Various areas within the East and South East of England resembling Cambridge, Rochester and Canterbury reached 31C at round 3pm on Sunday afternoon, based on the Met Office, whereas the world close to London’s Heathrow Airport hit 30C round 1pm.

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Beaches alongside the Kent coast, resembling Margate, Broadstairs and Deal, had been additionally extraordinarily busy with sunbathers eager to take in what is likely to be the final of this 12 months’s hotter climate.

The heatwave has already damaged the file for probably the most consecutive days with 30C-plus temperature climate in September, with Saharan mud producing vivid sunsets and sunrises within the clear situations.

The situations had been known as “unprecedented” by Tom Morgan, a meteorologist on the Met Office.

“We have never seen anything as long-lived in terms of a heatwave in September before,” he stated.

Further north, the Met Office is warning that thunderstorms may convey disruption and a danger of sudden flooding in some areas.

Yellow thunderstorm warnings are in power from 2pm till 11.59pm at the moment – masking a lot of northern England and Northern Ireland, alongside elements of Scotland and Wales.

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The Met Office stated a line of “severe thunderstorms” will push northeast throughout the East Midlands and northern East Anglia, with a small likelihood that properties and companies might be broken by lightning strikes, hail or robust winds.

The same warning will proceed to cowl southern Scotland from midnight till the early hours of Monday morning.

Sunday seemingly marks the final day of the heatwave for England, as showers and longer spells of rain will start to brush in on Monday – and it is shaping as much as be quite unsettled within the South on Tuesday.

Sky’s climate producer Chris England stated: “It will be cooler and fresher for many, still quite muggy in the South East, although not as hot as recently.”