26th July - Today's News: Britain's Hottest Day Ever as More European Records fall

Not quite a UK record yesterday (yet - data from some manual stations is yet to come in) but it was the second hottest day, hottest July day on record for the UK, and only the second time 100f has been recorded as Cambridge NIAB saw a max of 38.1c.   In my garden it was an all time record though with 36.2c (though it's not standard exposure). So, the UK just misses all-time temperature record as commuters endure chaos on railway whilst in the east (but not here) dazzling bolts light up summer sky as UK bakes in record heat (used that story only because my friend Dan Holley gets a quite).  And a look at the UK's record-breaking heat in maps and charts

Edit:  Data from Cambridge Botanical Gardens now in, and it reached 38.7c there, the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK. 

Meanwhile, across the Channel in the Europe heatwave: Paris latest to break record with 42.6C

 with Benelux and Germany seeing all time records fall for the second consecutive day

But it's not hot everywhere and there's a warning that snow may hit Moscow region next week while Europe reels from heat wave

There's now more than two million hectares on fire in Siberia, with turndra on fire destryoing the permafrost

Underwater glacial melting is occurring at higher rates than modeling predicts whilst the first glacier to disappear in Iceland will be marked with memorial

And a cloudspotters’ guide to climate change - my certificate shows I joined the Cloud Appreciation Society just over 12 years ago!