Satellite image 29 September
Over the past week we’ve had a period of settled weather bringing clear skies and high temperatures to many areas of the UK. The temperature peaked at 29.9°C at Gravesend in Kenton Saturday 1 October. This marked a new record for October, and a number of other new maximum temperature records were provisionally set as detailed below.
| Previous maximum temperature |
New maximum temperature |
|
| October (UK) | 29.4°C March, Cambridgeshire 1985 |
29.9°C Gravesend, Kent 2011 |
| October (Wales) | 26.4°C Ruthin, Denbighshire 1985 |
28.2°C Harwarden, Flintshire 2011 |
| 29 September | 27.8 °C York 1895 |
28.8°C Kew Gardens 2011 |
| 30 September | 27.8°C Maidenhead, Berkshire 1908 |
29.2°C Sutton Bonnington, Notts, and Cambridge 2011 |
| 1 October | 29.4°C March, Cambridgeshire 1985 |
29.9°C Gravesend, Kent 2011 |
| 2 October | 28.1 °C Whitby, North Yorkshire 1908 |
29.3°C Coningsby 2011 |
For more information about how the Met Office forecasted this spell of warm weather, view our case study.
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