Hottest May day on record: comment

"To break one extreme weather record in the space of a couple of days is one thing, but breaking them each day and night in succession, and by such a margin, is deeply worrying.

"The hottest May day in the UK is now more than two degrees higher than it was last week - and had been for more than 80 years - and our sleep is being disrupted by tropical spring nights. As recent heatwaves here and around Europe have shown, dangerous extremes cause harm and cost lives, posing a particular risk to elderly people and very young children. If we want to avoid worse extremes becoming the norm, then science has the answer - cutting our planet-heating emissions to net zero is the only way we know to halt climate change."