The extreme heat has buckled train tracks and fuelled a spate of fires across London
The Met Office said a new provisional record temperature of 40.3C was recorded in Coningsby, in central England, with 34 sites across the country experiencing temperatures in excess of the previous high of 38.7C recorded in 2019.
Train services on major routes from London up the east and west coast of the country were canceled, electricity companies reported mass outages and normally busy city centers appeared quiet. Network Rail tweeted a number of pictures showing large bends and kinks in rail tracks.Article content London’s Ambulance Service said it had been dealing with 400 calls an hour because of the extreme heat.
“My thanks go to all the firefighters and frontline services who are working incredibly hard to keep us safe on this scorching day,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Twitter.Transport minister Grant Shapps said there had been a considerable amount of travel disruption. Sony Kapoor, a climate and macro-economic professor at European University Institute, said he had long thought that people underestimated the physical impacts of climate change in contemporary times. “But even I never thought we would see 40 degree Celsius in London in 2022,” he said.
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