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As it happened – York heatwave day 2

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Tuesday, 19 July, 2022

Updates as York prepares for its hottest day. Got info or pix? Let us know on Twitter, or at info@wp.theyorkmix.com

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Full council meeting cancelled

 
Selby Abbey (Google).

A meeting of Selby’s full council has been cancelled due to the extreme weather.

The meeting had been scheduled for 6pm in the council chamber at the civic centre in Doncaster Road.

Temperatures in the town reached 37C on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Met Office.

A Selby District Council spokesperson said: “The items on the agenda will be carried forward to the next full council meeting on the 27th September.”

Full council meetings, attended by councillors of all parties, typically include motions, petitions and reports from senior councillors.

From Local Democracy Reporter in York and Selby, Joe Cooper

Shops close early as temperature unofficially hits 40C in York

A frightening number on the dashboard. Photograph: David Green

According to several unofficial sensors, parts of York have now hit the 40C mark.

That milestone number has been recorded by the WX Station on Weathercloud, based at Westfield in the city. It recorded 41.8C at 3pm today, with an average at that time of 40.1C.

The Apple iPhone weather map also placed York at 40C at 3.40pm, and MD of YorkMix Radio David Green’s car sensor put the temperature at the same new maximum this afternoon.

Other weather stations recorded a max of 39.4C (York Weather Station, Strensall, Weathercloud) and the same figure at the Osbaldwick Observation Station (Met Office Weather Observations Website).

The good news is, the temperature is dropping on all these sites.

Meanwhile, a number of shops have closed early in the stifling heat.

The Twitter account of York shop Angela Bare said:

40.2 at Heathrow, 40.3 in Lincolnshire

 

The temperature has hit 40.2 (104.3F) at Heathrow Airport – a new all-time UK record.

The previous record was 38.7C (101.7F), set in 2019 at Cambridge Botanic Garden.

Later in the day at Coningsby, Lincs, by 4.12pm, the temperature there had risen to 40.3C – the highest ever recorded in the UK.

Here’s how hot it was in York at midday today – and how hot it stayed last night

Sunshine over York Minster. Photograph: YorkMix

It is hot. And that’s official.

We’ve been looking at the temperatures recorded at various weather stations around York and North Yorkshire, and this is how it was looking as it reached high noon.

Bear in mind that most of these weather stations aren’t official. But they give us a good idea of how high the mercury’s going…

York

  • York Weather Station (Strensall, Weathercloud) 35ºC
  • WX Station (Westfield, Weathercloud) 37ºC
  • Terry’s South (South Bank, Weathercloud) 33ºC
  • Paul YO30 (Clifton, Weathercloud) 38ºC
  • Lowfield Green (Met Office WOW) 34.7ºC
  • Osbaldwick Observation Station (Met Office WOW) 37.4ºC

And according to York Weather Station – which is used by the Met Office – it dropped no lower than 18.4ºC – at 4am – last night:

North Yorkshire

  • Topcliffe (Met Office) 35ºC
  • Leeming (Met Office) 33ºC
  • Selby Central (Weathercloud) 36ºC
  • Green Hammerton (Weathercloud) 35ºC
  • Helmsley Weather Station (Weathercloud) 37ºC
  • Scarborough (Weathercloud) 35ºC

New record set for a top temperature in the UK

 

Charlwood in Surrey has reached 39.1C (102.4F) which is the hottest ever recorded in the UK.

Much of England remains under the Met Office’s first ever red warning as the heatwave continues.

Charlwood is a village in the Mole Valley, 4 miles from Gatwick Airport.

The previous record was 38.7C (101.7F), set in 2019 at Cambridge Botanic Garden.

Yesterday RAF Fylingdales, the highest weather station in North Yorkshire, recorded a maximum of 31.6°C, making it the hottest temperature ever recorded here.

Living without power on Britain’s hottest night was murder

 
A Northern Powergrid engineer working on an overhead electricity line. Photograph: Northern Powergrid

Hundreds of properties to the south and west of York suffered a power cut last night. For once one of the most important electrical items to fail was not the TV or cooker but the fan!

The issue was with power equipment overheating in the hot weather.

Some people are still waiting to be connected.

There were issues in Tadcaster, Sherburn, Cliffe as well as other rural areas.

It caused a sleepless, sweaty night for customers already struggling to keep cool on what turned out to be a record breaker of a night with temperatures higher than most UK summer days.

The message people found on their phones when trying to contact Northern Powergrid

June Horner Ferguson and her husband live in Sherburn-in-Elmet and lost power at 7:30pm.

She told us: “It was murder last night.

“We get a message when there is a power cut because my husband has a machine that helps with his sleep apnea.

“They sent one to say it was going to be off till nine and then we got another message to say it was going to be off till midnight and after that no more messages and my husband had to make do without his machine last night.

“The front of our house gets all the afternoon sun, so about nine o’clock we ended up sitting in the garden because it was cooler outside than it was inside.

“But once it got dark we had to come back in. We were using mobile phones and tablets to keep us occupied because obviously there’s no TV and as batteries were going down we couldn’t charge them.

“My sister, who lives in Cliffe, and looks out for our parents who also live there said they had to have a Barbecue as it was the only way to have a meal”

Northern Powergrid says 530 properties in the Front Street area of Acomb have lost power. It’s been caused by an ‘unexpected problem with cables or equipment’.

The distributor says It estimates supplies will be restored by 12.30pm.