UK - Hottest July Day Since 1911 - Retail Chain Sells Fan Every 2 Seconds

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Britain experienced its hottest-ever July day yesterday, as much of the southern half of the country sweltered in blazing sunshine. The July record, nearly a century old, was breached at a Met Office weather recording station at Charlwood in Surrey, where just after 1.30pm the thermometer reached 36.3C, or 97.3F.

The old record of 36C (96.8F) was set at Epsom, Surrey, on 22 July 1911, and has only once been closely approached in the 95 years since then - when 35.9C (96.6F) was recorded at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 3 July, 1976, in another famously sweltering summer. Besides the new national record, local records for July were equalled or broken in many places, including Heathrow airport (35.3C) and the London Weather Centre (33.9C), while Wales equalled its July record with 33.6C (92.5F), recorded at RAF Valley on Anglesey.

Scotland, however, was not so blisteringly hot, with a maximum of 31C recorded at Prestwick airport, south-west of Glasgow; the Scottish record for July is 32.8C. North-eastern Scotland was distinctly chilly, with the temperature in Shetland not exceeding 15C - "drizzly and horrid", said the Met Office.

But in southern England the temperatures were higher than in many tropical resorts - British temperatures this week have outstripped holiday destinations including Athens, Bermuda, Rio de Janeiro and Rome - and across the country there was a rush for products designed for keeping cool

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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1187005.ece

[Counciltucky]

1. lol...

Come live in Iowa sometime -- it reaches that weather, if not higher, every year, two months out of the year, with humidity.

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2. Iowa is not a maritime climate. Iowa isn't as far north as Labrador.

Iowa isn't moderated by the Gulf Stream.

Iowa has air conditioning systems.

Iowa has people who are acclimated to that kind of heat and humidity.

[Democrats_win]

3. On this date, last year, highest Temp. in Denver history was recorded.

July 20, 2005 it was 105 degrees in Denver.

[NNadir]

4. There was a report on the radio today that Denver wasn't all that peachy

keen today.

There were big ozone problems as well as heat, from what I heard on NPR.

[msongs]

5. temps SAME as 100 yrs ago? so this is NOT that special then...

if it is no hotter than 100 years ago, then this heat wave is unusual but not that special.

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