A TROPICAL NIGHT – IN SUTTON BONINGTON

ONE place in Nottinghamshire has been singled out as officially recording a tropical night.

This is when the night-time temperature falls no lower than 20 degrees.

In a report by the BBC, three places recorded the sizzling temperature on Monday night.

Two were in Yorkshire and one in Sutton Bonington, in Nottinghamshire.

Back in 2018, Dr Mark Mccarthy, who at the time was speaking as head of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, said: “Minimum overnight temperatures of over 20.0 °C in the UK are rare currently, and even during this summer this threshold was only exceeded on a few occasions.

“However, with projections in climate suggesting warmer temperatures, it is useful to have this metric in place, so that future changes can be monitored.”

While most of us struggled to sleep on Monday night, spare a though for those in Sutton Bonington, where the temperature failed to drop below 20.3C.

It is the second time the village has claimed the title.

In July 2016 a minimum overnight temperature of 20.8C became the first tropical night for the village since records began for the area in 1930.

Other locations sweltering overnight on Monday included Sheffield, where the temperature only managed to dip to 20.5C.

The third place to record a tropical night was Ryhill, near Wakefield, which maintained a temperature of no lower than 20.1C.

Paul Hudson, a BBC meteorologist and climate and environment correspondent, said that Monday was the warmest night in Sheffield since 1882, when records began.

The Met office is forecasting temperatures as high as 28, 32 and 34 degrees next week.