• Question: what is the highest temperature that the UK has ever had?

    Asked by Popping Pepsi 08 to Sarah, Angela on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Hi there Popping Pepsi 08

      I remember the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, very well – it was Sunday 11 August 2008 where in Gravesend the temperature was 38.1 degrees centigrade which is 100.6 degrees fahrenheit. I remember it because I was helping my friend unpack boxes in her new house near Gravesend…it was roasting all day and then there was an amazing thunderstorm!!

      Of course there might have been a hotter day before records began, but because there are no records, we don’t know!

    • Photo: Sarah Harris

      Sarah Harris answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      England has the highest recorded temperature out of all the UK countries – that was Angela’s answer of 38.1 degrees (which sounds like an awful temperature to be unpacking boxes in!). The others have slightly lower highest temperatures:
      Wales 35.2C
      Scotland 32.9C
      Northern Ireland 30.8C

      and to put that in perspective, the hottest temperature ever recorded was a whopping 56.7C (or 134F) in Death Valley!!

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