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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sam Hall

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Temperatures to drop after record breaking heatwave | History Defined

People swim in the lido at Hampstead Heath, London (Ben Whitley / PA). - (PA Wire)

Temperatures will drop with thunderstorm warnings issued following a heatwave that saw the record June temperature broken three days in a row.

Friday was confirmed by the Met Office as the UK’s hottest June day on record, with a provisional temperature of 37.3C recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk, surpassing the high of 36.7C recorded in Merryfield, Somerset, on Thursday.

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