What a scorcher! Hottest June day since records began makes Jersey the warmest place in the British Isles

• Temperatures hit a record-breaking 33°C degrees
• Jersey was the warmest place in the British Isles
• It was the hottest June day since records began over 120 years ago
• See which places in the world Jersey was hotter than yesterday – and which were hotter than us

JERSEY was the warmest place in the British Isles yesterday, as temperatures soared to a record-breaking 33°C.

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The mercury shot to its peak at around 3 pm making it the hottest June day since records began over 120 years ago.

And the rising temperature fell just 3°C degrees short of the highest figure ever recorded in the Island.

On 9 August 2003 temperatures reached 36°C.

Jersey’s hot weather even eclipsed some of the well-known sun traps around the globe.

The temperatures record at Maison St Louis exceeded the likes of Alicante, the Seychelles and Miami and fell just short of those in Dubai and Madrid.

Philip Johnson, duty forecaster for Jersey Met, said the hot weather is due to continue in the foreseeable future.

‘It hit 33°C which made it the warmest June day ever-recorded.

‘The temperature today is expected to be a little bit down on yesterday, there is some fog and thunderstorms around.

‘But it should reach 28°C or 29°C and tomorrow it will be down too but Friday we should expect to break the 30°C mark again.’

Places Jersey was hotter than yesterday:

• Alicante 31 °C
• Athens 28°C
• Barbados 30°C
• Barcelona 28°C
• Bermuda 29°C
• Cairo 29°C
• Calcutta 32°C
• Corfu 28°C
• Florence 32°C
• Gibraltar 26°C
• Jerusalem 28°C
• Lanzarote 27°C
• Majorca 32°C
• Malta 28°C
• Milan 28°C
• Naples 30°C
• Paris 29°C
• Rome 28°C
• Seychelles 29°C
• Tenerife 25°C
• Venice 27°C

Places that were hotter than Jersey yesterday:

• Bahrain 37°C
• Bangkok 34°C
• Bordeaux 34°C
• Dubai 36°C
• Hong Kong 34°C
• Madrid 35°C
• Riyadh 40°C

• The highest temperature ever recorded in Jersey was 36°C on 9 August 2003. T
• The warmest year on record was 1989.
• The lowest daytime temperature was -6.1°C on 12 January 1987 and the coldest year recorded was 1963, when St Ouen’s Pond froze enough for people to ride bikes across. The same year, the water in St Aubin’s Harbour also froze.
• The wettest day, with 95.7 mm of rain, was 24 August 1931 and the windiest day was 9 October 1964, when the hourly mean wind speed recorded at Jersey Airport was 78.3 mph. The highest gust was 108.2 mph knots on the same day.