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Temperatures in most parts of the United Kingdom began to rise on 25 September, reaching 23 °C in some areas. [2] The warm weather stayed consistent over the next few days and reached 27 °C at Saint Helier in Jersey on 28 September. [3] Temperatures continued to rise and the temperatures recorded on 29 September exceeded those peaked in Costa del Sol, Turkey and Mexico that day at 29 °C in Lincolnshire. [4] This also broke the UK's record high for that day of the year, with 27 °C having been recorded in York on 29 September 1985. [5]
Saint Helier is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St Helier has a population of about 33,500, roughly 34.2% of the total population of Jersey, and is the capital of the Island. The urban area of the parish of St Helier makes up most of the largest town in Jersey, although some of the town area is situated in adjacent St Saviour, with suburbs sprawling into St Lawrence and St Clement. The greater part of St Helier is rural.
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey and the other Channel Islands remained attached to the English crown.
The Costa del Sol is a region in the south of Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, comprising the coastal towns and communities along the coastline of the Province of Málaga.
The month of October began with a southerly airstream resulting in some exceptionally high temperatures, reaching 25–28 °C throughout England and Wales. [6] The first of October brought the highest temperatures of the heat wave with 29.9 °C recorded in Gravesend, Kent, the highest ever recorded in the United Kingdom for October, beating the previous October record of 29.4 °C which was set in 1985 in March in Cambridgeshire. [1] The new record also made the first day of October the third-warmest of 2011, although in several places (such as Sennybridge in Powys), 1 October was the hottest day of the year. [7] The annual high temperature was broken in certain places in the west and north. Throughout the month, mild westerly and southerly airstreams brought rain to north-western UK, and further relatively warm and dry days in the south. [6] The Central England Temperature for October was 13.02 °C, almost 2 °C above the 1971–2000 average, and was the warmest October since 2006 and the eighth-warmest in 100 years. There was a marked contrast in rainfall, with amounts ranging from well below average over East Anglia and south-east England to well above in Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Subsequently, sunshine amounts also varied accordingly, from well below normal over Northern Ireland and western Scotland to well above in East Anglia. [6] However, a cold front from the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia brought much cooler air across the whole of the country. [8] [9]
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous, with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon, its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate.
Cambridgeshire is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The city of Cambridge is the county town. Modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and Peterborough, the former covering the historic county of Cambridgeshire and the latter covering the historic county of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, historically part of Northamptonshire. It contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen.
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England. The area included has varied but the legally defined NUTS 2 statistical unit comprises the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, including the City of Peterborough unitary authority area. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a tribe whose name originated in Anglia, northern Germany.
