Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on (a) the number of monitoring stations which recorded the reported temperature of 36.7 degrees Celsius on 1 July 2015 and (b) for how long each such monitoring station recorded that temperature that day.

The maximum temperature reported by the Met Office’s network of UK weather stations on 1 July 2015 was 36.7 degrees Celsius, which was recorded at Heathrow airport. The maximum temperature was recorded at 1413 GMT, with lower temperatures recorded at minute intervals either side of that time. This pattern is in line with the natural fluctuation of temperature and consistent with maximum temperature readings recorded by the Met Office in general.