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The hot, dry weather comes as the Trnsmt music festival begins in Glasgow on Friday.

The Met Office’s pollen forecast predicts very high pollen counts for swaths of England, Wales and Scotland on Saturday

Temperatures are expected to climb into the 30s from Thursday and into the weekend across parts of the UK.

The UK Health Security Agency issued yellow heat health alerts on Wednesday covering parts of central and southern England, valid until July 15.

The third heatwave of the summer is set to hit the London this week, with Wimbledon fans and players in for a sweltering weekend.

The UK Met Office has given storms forenames for the past decade as part of an effort to raise public awareness of extreme weather before it strikes. Heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent and severe due to greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly from burning fossil fuel, which are raising global temperatures by…

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Highs of 26C to 28C can be expected in some of the hotter spots across central parts of the UK from Wednesday, according to the forecaster.

The 30C mark has been reached in July somewhere in the UK in every year since 2011.

The alert will be in place from 10am on Wednesday to 10am on July 15, with ‘significant impacts’ likely across health and social care services.

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