Weather UK dwell: Britain braces for 30C warmth as 80-year-old temperature file might be damaged | EUROtoday

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) has urged warning round open-water swimming after a 32 per cent enhance in water-related incidents final month in contrast with the identical interval final yr.

Craig Carter, LFB assistant commissioner for prevention and safety, mentioned: “Even when the sun is shining, water temperatures can be dangerously cold. Cold water shock can affect anyone, no matter how fit or experienced they are.

“It can lead to water inhalation and, in the worst cases, drowning. Be particularly careful near the water’s edge, it’s easy to slip and fall unexpectedly. And think twice before jumping into open water.”

The Met Office mentioned temperatures reached 26.7C in Wisley, Surrey on Wednesday – making it the warmest day of the yr up to now.

The earlier excessive was 24.5C in St James’s Park, London, on Monday, which reached 24.7C on Tuesday.

Today the south east might attain 30C.

The UK is ready to face the most well liked begin to May on file, with with forecasters predicting temperatures to hit 30C.

If it does attain this temperature, which it’s more likely to within the south east, it will likely be the most well liked ever recorded within the UK.

The earlier earliest date it reached temperatures as excessive as this was 12 May 1945

Meteorologist Michael Silverstone mentioned temperatures may climb to “29C or even 30C”.

He added: “If we reach 30C on Thursday, it will be the earliest date in May that the UK has seen 30C since our records began in 1860.”