Britain records highest ever temperature as heatwave intensifies | World News,The Indian Express

Ed Miliband, a former leader of the opposition Labour Party who leads its response on climate change, said he found the political debate deeply worrying.

Britain recorded its highest ever temperature of 39.1C (102.4F) on Tuesday, according to provisional data from the Met Office, which forecast even hotter weather to come from a heatwave that has already damaged airport runways and rail tracks.

The record temperature was reached before noon in Charlwood, near Gatwick Airport in southern England, surpassing the previous record of 38.7C recorded in 2019. Forecasts show it could keep rising throughout the day, breaking through the 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) barrier.

“If confirmed this will be the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK,” the Met Office said on Twitter. The forecaster will need to validate the equipment used to record any record temperature before it becomes official. Britain, which can struggle to maintain key transport services in extreme heat or the snow, has been put on a state of “national emergency” over the unprecedented temperatures.

Transport minister Grant Shapps said it would be many years before Britain could fully upgrade its infrastructure to cope with higher temperatures, after at least two runways showed signs of damage and some train tracks buckled.

“We’ve seen a considerable amount of travel disruption,” he told the BBC. “Infrastructure, much of which was built from the Victorian times, just wasn’t built to withstand this type of temperature.”

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