BRITAIN SWELTERS
INTENSE HEAT WAVE
WARMEST AUGUST WEATHER
TOEEID TEMPEEATUEE
British Official Wireless,
(Received 28th August, 11 a.m.)
BTJGBY, 27th August.
After weeks of unsettled weather the greater part of England to-day arid yesterday has been sweltering in a heat-wave.' The shado temperature at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in London was 86, and to-day at the same hour it was 92. This has boon the hottest August day since 1911', when a record temperature of 100 was reached at Greenwich on the 9th. There have been only five other Augusts this century in which London's temperature went into the nineties, and in only two of these was such oxtreme heat registered as lato in tho month as the 27th August.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1930, Page 13
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