Britons struggled to sleep last night ahead of the hottest day of the year so far today with temperatures set to hit 33C (91F) amid a heat-health alert and a one in three chance of the country’s warmest day on record this week.
The mercury in central, southern and eastern England will soar again this afternoon amid a heatwave blasting the nation – with the hot weather set to last until at least the weekend when temperatures could get up to 36C (97F).
But it comes after a tropical night during which temperatures were still at 20C (68F) at midnight in London – with Twitter users posting memes about having trouble getting to sleep. One said: ‘It’s too hot to sleep. I’m not bitter at all if you have air con this week.’ Another added: ‘Can’t sleep in this heat even with my fan on full, it’s not helping.’
The UK’s hottest day of 2022 so far was June 17 when Santon Downham in Norfolk got up to 32.7C (90.8F) – while the country’s highest temperature ever recorded was the 38.7C (101.6F) in…
