UK swelters in hottest June day on record

Britain just sweltered through its hottest June day on record, with temperatures in southern England climbing to thirty-six point one degrees Celsius. That shatters the previous mark of thirty-five point six degrees, set in nineteen seventy-six. According to France 24, this marks the second consecutive month where the UK has broken historical temperature records, as climate scientists warn that global warming is making extreme weather events like heatwaves increasingly frequent and intense.

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