Summer off to a scorching start

Temperatures reached 25.6°C at about 4 pm yesterday afternoon, making it the warmest 1 June since 1894.

The previous record set for the date – which marks the meteorological start of summer – was in 1963, when the mercury reached 25.1°C.

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