LONDON HEAT WAVE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 3

LONDON HEAT WAVE

' ♦ HOT AND COLD JUNE

(0.C.) LONDON, July 9.. -Only 11 days after the coldest June day for five years, London had its hottest June day on record during the first three weeks of the most amazing June weather known. The first- 10 days of June were miserably cold and wet, until on June 11 the minimum temperature as recorded in Regent street, London, dropped to 45 degrees, the lowest for June since 1936. Then soon after the sudden transformation of seasons, London had its hottest June day on record on Sunday, June 22. The maximum temperature recorded in Regent street was 91 degrees. Not for nine years has there been, such a hot day, and then it was in August, not June. On the same night one of the biggest storms ever to break in North-East England robbed thousands of Tynesiders of their Sunday evening’s drink. Public houses were closed and customers turned away. The beer barrels in the cellars were covered by water. The storm followed days of brilliant weather and lasted three hours when hundreds of gardens and allotments were ruined; hailstones as big as marbles fell; floods ripped up roads and pushed down brick walls; and a thunderbolt tore off thousands of chimneys and slates. People had to wade thigh deep in water to get home. Transport services were cancelled.