{"id":24050,"date":"2026-05-26T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=24050"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:17:07","slug":"hottest-may-day-on-record-in-uk-as-temperatures-pass-34c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/05\/26\/hottest-may-day-on-record-in-uk-as-temperatures-pass-34c\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest May Day On Record In UK As Temperatures Pass 34C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">The UK has recorded its all-time highest May temperature as part of London reached 34.8C on Monday, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">That provisional figure, recorded in Kew Gardens, also surpassed the hottest bank holiday Monday on record &#8211; 33.3C on the August bank holiday in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Wales has also experienced its hottest May day, reaching 32.2C at Hawarden Airport in Flintshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">&#8220;This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid-summer, let alone in May&#8221;, the Met Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The mercury is expected to rise further on Tuesday, with forecasters warning of possible 35C heat in parts of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The UK recorded its warmest May night on Sunday, with highs of 19.4C in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">This week&#8217;s weather means more than half of the monthly record highs &#8211; seven out of 12 &#8211; have been set since 2003, according to the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">These exceptionally high temperatures have been caused by &#8220;the influence of warmth building under an area of high pressure near the UK&#8221;, Met Office chief operational meteorologist Dan Suri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has recorded its all-time highest May temperature as part of London reached 34.8C on Monday, BBC reported. That provisional figure, recorded in Kew Gardens, also surpassed the hottest bank holiday Monday on record &#8211; 33.3C on the August bank holiday in 2019. Wales has also experienced its hottest May day, reaching 32.2C at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24054,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050\/revisions\/24054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}