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Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.0°C Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8°C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️

If you're tempted by the hot weather to swim at the seaside or in English rivers, you may become sickened by toxic parasites. These toxic parasites are called water companies, and the cure for them is nationalisation.

British economy snapshot over the last 4 years: Gas: +94.1% Electricity: +78% Fuel: +49.3% Airfares: +34.4% Hotels: +37.8% Groceries: +25.0% Eating out: +26.5% Baby food: +26.3% Dog food: +58.1% Rent: +25% Used cars: +30.5% Public transport: +18.7% Real average weekly earnings: -2.8% The UK population is being killed Source: ONS

If you don't think we're burning up our planet, you're an idiot ... and that goes for US Presidents and other populists telling people to "drill baby, drill"

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

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what TV SHOW got you HOOKED from EPISODE 1. GIFS is accepted

A 12-year-old boy from Addlestone, who reportedly became the youngest registered beekeeper in the UK, said helping the pollinators "will be a big step in changing the world". More here: bbc.in/4e14MJH

Libraries are the real data centers, and they don't gobble up water and electricity.

Watch The Assembly. Pick an episode & watch it. You won’t be disappointed. Truly heartwarming, thoughtful, moving TV #theassembley

This heatwave is unprecedented for May, some say its wonderful, others (me included) say its climate change and not good. Watching bird nest livecams today, the chicks are already suffering from the heat at 10am, how do we tell birds 'get over it, its just a bit of weather'?

This kind of heat would be extreme in the UK even in the middle of summer, never mind May. Kew Gardens has provisionally hit 34.8°C today, making it the hottest May day ever recorded in the UK and smashing the previous record by around 2°C. But apparently we’re all just “overreacting” again.

@babybeginner Lady from Grey’s Anatomy. Don’t know her name.

This is turning out to be harder than I thought. Who is this actress? So far Grok has come up with Meg Ryan. Kirstie Alleg. Mary Steenburgen. Kathleen Turner and Lesley Ann Warren. Any humans smarter than an AI?

This is insane. Not to be hyperbolic but 30°C being reached this widely at this time of year is unprecedented and extreme. A new all time May record. Some stations have beaten their all time JUNE records. Climate change is not a future problem.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

🚨Breaking news: 34.8C recorded at Kew Gardens. In spring. Hottest May Day ever recorded in the UK. Previous record obliterated by a shocking 2C. Highly disturbing.

Word of the Day is ‘swullocking’: swelteringly, stiflingly hot. From 19th-century East Anglian dialect.

An historic day, as the River Wye becomes the first river in the UK to have its rights recognised by local authorities across its catchment. Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the river to watch as representatives from Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean & Powys Councils, Herefordshire County Council, the Wye Valley National Landscape & Bannau Brycheiniog National Park signed the pledge recognising the rivers rights and then spoke about why they had done so what it would mean for the relationship of their organisation to the river. It went beyond legal formalities into something of a service of thanks & honour to the river, with poetry, a choir singing songs, & offerings to the river. It has been a real honour to witness & be part of the surging movement towards river rights & guardianship on the Wye. Four years ago I met & advised Herefordshire Councillor Elissa Swinglehurst, who wanted to put a voice of the river on the Wye Nutrient Management Board. A year ago I sat around a fire on the banks of the river with other Wye guardians & Earth lawyers as the idea of a charter was first mooted. To see it become a reality, & supported by 6 public bodies, in just a year is astonishing. Now, of course, comes the hard work of making those rights a reality. But given the hundreds of active river guardians, & increasing public pressure to protect & restore the river, if it can be done on any river, it will be done on the Wye.

Not only the hottest day in May ever, but also the hottest bank holiday ever, beating every single August bank holiday going back to 1884 when records began. It is spring...and the daily maximum hasn't been reached yet.

30° abroad: “let’s explore this town.” 30° in the UK: “I may not survive this Sainsbury’s trip.”