We all know that it's been hot recently and that there is more to come but one place in Nottinghamshire has been singled out as officially recording a tropical night. The event is described as when the night-time temperature falls no lower than 20 degrees.
In a report by the BBC, three places recorded the sizzling temperature on the night of Monday, July 11. Two were in Yorkshire and one 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.”
