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The UK experienced a 'tropical night' with temperatures not dropping below 21.3C, breaking the record for highest daily minimum temperature in May. Additionally, Kew Gardens recorded the hottest meteorological spring temperature at 34.8C.
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The UK experienced a “tropical night” on Monday as the record for highest daily minimum temperature in May was broken for the second consecutive day.
Temperatures did not fall below 21.3C on Monday at Kenley airfield in south London after the UK recorded its hottest May day since Met Office data began, the forecaster said.
The country also recorded its provisional all-time hottest meteorological spring temperature when Kew Gardens in south-west London hit 34.8C on Monday. The previous all-time May peak stood at 32.8C reached in 1922 and 1944.
The Met Office listed 12 locations where the record was topped on Monday – ranging from Suffolk to Berkshire to Warwickshire – while 97 of its monitoring sites reached or surpassed 30C.
The UK’s previous warmest May night was Sunday, when temperatures did not fall below 19.4C at Kenley airfield.
“We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May … again,” the forecaster said.
“Temperatures didn’t fall below 21.3C overnight at Kenley airfield, making it a ‘tropical night’ (no lower than 20C),” it added. “Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.”

Bournemouth beach on Monday. Photograph: Simon Ackerman/Getty Images
“In the past, heatwaves built and built and built and built over days and days and days, these now just develop so quickly,” the Met Office’s senior forecaster Greg Dewhurst said on Monday, adding that climate change was boosting the heat.
On Tuesday, highs of 35C were expected for large swathes of southern England and Wales, which could reach near 36C, a Met Office meteorologist said. Those forecasts also spanned the Midlands, as well as south-east and south-west England, East Anglia and south Wales.
Many places across England and Wales will reach the heatwave threshold on Tuesday, with some having experienced it for five days by Wednesday, said Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell. There may be thunderstorms in the afternoon, affecting high temperatures.
A heatwave means temperatures must meet or surpass a specific threshold for three consecutive days. For this time of year, the highest heatwave threshold in the UK is 28C, applied to London and north of the capital towards Cambridgeshire.
In eight parts of England, those conditions were already met by Sunday evening, including in Heathrow, Kew Gardens and Northolt London, and locations in Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Essex. The figure was anticipated to be higher after the bank holiday weather, however data was yet to be released.
The highest temperature recorded in the UK on May day was 34.8C at Kew Gardens.
A 'tropical night' refers to a night when temperatures do not fall below 20C, which occurred when temperatures remained at 21.3C at Kenley airfield.
On this day, 12 locations in the UK broke temperature records, with 97 monitoring sites reaching or surpassing 30C.
The previous record for the warmest May night in the UK was 19.4C, recorded at Kenley airfield on Sunday.

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With nearly 100 sites having reached 30C on Monday, it “goes to show how many places would have succeeded their heatwave threshold”, said Mitchell.
While temperatures will gradually decline from midweek, largely dry with sunny spells are expected, with many still experiencing temperatures in the high 20Cs.
On Monday, fire and smoke spread across a large patch of Holyrood Park in Edinburghnear Arthur’s Seat. Emergency services went to the scene when the alarm was raised at about 6.50pm on Monday. The fire started in an area of vegetation near the ruins of St Anthony’s Chapel.
Two fire engines remained at the scene at 6.30am on Tuesday, with firefighters having worked through the night to tackle the blaze. Clouds of smoke could be seen rising from the area and local residents were advised to keep their windows and doors shut as a precaution.
In Spain and France, more new highs were likely to be set on Tuesday as the heatwave continued to sweep across Europe.