UK weather news – live: ‘Red alert’ issued for beaches as UK records hottest August day in more than 15 years

Samuel Osborne, Conrad Duncan

7 August 2020 at 10:45 am

The UK could experience the hottest day of the year so far on Friday.

The Met Office has warned people not to be “caught out” by the potentially record-breaking temperatures.

The mercury is set to rise to 37C in London and the south east on Friday and could surpass the 37.8C recorded at Heathrow on 31 July – the hottest day of the year so far and the UK’s third warmest ever.

It is the second day of a heatwave which is expected to last until at least Sunday.

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