Most of us enjoy sunny weather but with rail lines buckling, schools closing and essential services failing, this is clearly no ordinary heatwave.
Today’s temperatures are expected to reach a record for June at 40C, with the Met Office issuing a ‘a risk to life for even the healthy population’ red warning – for only the second time ever in the UK – across parts of central and southern England and Wales.
It’s called a ‘heatdome’ because it’s driven by a dome of hot air moving north from the Sahara that then stays over the same area for days, trapping warm air
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