NEW HOTTEST DAY AS MERCURY HITS 30.7

TEMPERATURES reached a new record in Wales yesterday as the mercury marked the hottest day of the year once again.

Sunday was previously the warmest day of 2021 so far reaching 30.2 degrees C in Cardiff but the capital sweltered at 30.7 degrees C yesterday to mark the new warmest day of the summer.

Earlier yesterday afternoon the Met Office issued its first-ever amber weather warning for heat across Wales urging people to take care as high temperatures continue both by day and night, peaking Usk recorded the second-highest temperatures in Wales on Monday clocking in at 29.9 degrees C.

Over in England the hottest temperature was recorded in Heathrow at 31.4 degrees C, just a little below yesterday’s highs of 31.6 degrees C.

The weather warning now in place for Wales until midnight on Thursday applies to the following areas: Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Monmouthshire, Swansea, Caerphilly, Neath Port

Talbot, Torfaen, Cardiff, Newport, Vale of Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.

This is the first time the warning has been issued since the Met Office said last month that it would launch weather warnings for extreme heat after a recordbreaking number of heatwave deaths were recorded in England last summer.

The meteorological body said to expect that adverse health effects are likely to be experienced by those vulnerable to extreme heat.