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And the isle of man, a hosepipe ban was announced today. it has also been hot. and last week there were unprecedented temperatures recorded in england, scotland and wales. but why was it so extreme? for the last ten days, some of the world�*s leading climate scientists have been working around the clock to establish what role humans played in last week�*s heatwave. so what did the scientists find out? firstly, they said the extremely high temperatures — 40.3 celsius seen in lincolnshire — are still a rare event, there isjust a one in 100 chance of that happening in any particular year....

They can be amber and, of course, the highest level, which is red. and the extreme heat warnings from the met office only started in 2021 and that's because, well, if you think about it, we warn for heavy rain that causes flooding, we warn for winter storms that can bring severe disruption. why wouldn't we warn for extreme heat, because that can bring widespread travel disruption and, of course, heat has serious impacts on people's health. it's very rare for us to issue a red warning at — for any kind of weather. we are expecting unprecedentedly hot temperatures for the uk over a large area....

In fact, 29 places across england have broken the old record, which was 38.7 degrees. scotland has experienced its hottest day on record with the temperature reaching 34.8 degrees centigrade, in charterhall in the scottish borders. and it's notjust daytime temperatures we're talking about. provisional figures show last night was also the warmest on record, that was in emley moor in west yorkshire, where it reached 25.9 degrees centigrade — that was overnight. even before noon today, a new uk temperature record was set — 39.1 degrees in charlwood, and that's in surrey. but that did not last...

Has eased again, will the pressure on politicians keep growing? lucy williamson, bbc news, teste—de—buch. elsewhere in the world, heavy rain has caused severe flooding in senegal�*s capital, dakar. the main roads through the city were inundated, forcing people to wade through knee—deep waters. residents say rainy season downpours cause problems every year and that the government needs to install adequate drainage systems. to the uk now, where london's fire service says that tuesday was its busiest day since world war ii, dealing with multiple blazes in record—breaking temperatures. t...

Declared a major incident. a number of the calls that we've been dealing with today have been wildfires or grassfires, where the ground has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warning of what was to come. within an hour, another record had been set at another airport — 40.2 celsius at heathrow. by mid—afternoon, we got a new provisional heat record for the uk when coningsby in lincolnshire reached 40.3 celsi...