To put the new provisional record for May of 35.1C at Kew yesterday into perspective, the record for June is 35.6C recorded at Southampton during the notorious summer of 1976, and that was at the end of the month on the 28th.
May records also broken in Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Forecasting what the imminent three months of ‘official’ summer will be like this year is a fool’s game of course, but I have to admit I’m feeling rather uneasy.