1911 United Kingdom heatwave
Period of unusually hot weather in the summer of 1911 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The United Kingdom heatwave of 1911 was a particularly severe heatwave and associated drought. Records were set around the country for temperature in England, including the highest accepted temperature, at the time, of 36.7 °C (98.1 °F),[2] only broken 79 years later in the 1990 heatwave, which reached 37.1 °C (98.8 °F).[3] A temperature of 100 °F (38 °C) was recorded at Greenwich in a Glaisher stand and was regarded as the record but further data from a Stevenson screen in the same location showed the temperature to be 96.6 °F (35.9 °C).[4] The highest ever accepted temperature is currently 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) recorded on 19th July 2022 on a Royal Air Force station in Coningsby, Lincolnshire.[5] Weather in Northern Europe was also affected around about this time.
Areas | United Kingdom and Ireland |
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Start date | Early July 1911 |
End date | Mid-September 1911 |
Peak temp. | 36.7 °C (98.1 °F), recorded at Raunds, Northamptonshire and Canterbury, Kent on 9 August 1911[lower-alpha 1] |