Wales has provisionally recorded its hottest day on record with the temperature reaching 37.1C in Hawarden in Flintshire, on Monday, the Met Office has said. They posted a tweet shortly after 4pm saying the temperature had provisionally been reached and it was "the highest air temperature ever recorded in Wales".
That update marked the second time in the day the record had been beaten. Earlier the Met Office said a temperature of 35.3C had provisionally been reached in Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth.
That figure beat the previous high of 35.2C recorded in Hawarden, Flintshire on August 2, 1990. Meanwhile, in England, temperatures are also expected to break the record for the UK as a whole, which was recorded in Cambridge in 2019 at 38.7C.
