Heatwave saw temperatures above 32C in Highlands, Met Office confirms
The Met Office said Aviemore, where July average highs are 18.8C, hit 32.2C. It was the first time Scotland exceeded 30C since June 13, 2023.
Saturday is only the seventh time since at least 1961 that the same high has been recorded in the country.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Scotland was 34.8C, at Charterhall in the Borders in 2022.
Northern Ireland and Wales also recorded their warmest day of the year so far.
It's been a widely hot day, with Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales all seeing their highest temperature of the year so far 🌡️ pic.twitter.com/JAhtCndMH2
— Met Office (@metoffice) July 12, 2025
It was 30C in Magilligan, marking the first time the milestone had been reached in Northern Ireland since July 18, 2022.
And temperatures in Wales hiked to 33.1C in Cardiff's Bute Park, beating the 2025 record set on Friday of 32.4C at the same location.
Although England was also hot, with maximum temperatures hitting 33.1C in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, it did not break the country's current record for the year of 35.8C – recorded in Kent at the beginning of July.
Temperatures are forecast to dip marginally on Sunday, before Monday brings some relief from the baking heat.
Met Office meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said: 'While we've seen the peak of the heat in this heatwave through today it's still going to be very warm on Sunday before turning cooler for many of us on Monday.
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'So we've got this ridge of high pressure extending across the UK, helping to keep things settled, but out towards the west an area of low pressure moving through Sunday night and into Monday.
'So if you're not a fan of the heat, temperatures will be falling away but also bringing some heavy spells of rain, or welcome rainfall, for many of us.'
Amber heat health alerts are in place for the Midlands and southern and eastern England until 9am on Monday, warning of the potential for a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions.
Fire chiefs urged people to stay safe as they warned of the increased risk of wildfires and drowning, with the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) asking people not to enter water to try to cool down and urging parents and carers to ensure children are supervised around water at all times.
HM Coastguard also issued safety advice for people heading to the coast, as data from the water incident database shows most drownings happened in July over the last three years.
As well as the amber alerts, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has yellow alerts in place until Monday for the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.
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Yorkshire Water brought in restrictions on using hosepipes for activities such as watering the garden, cleaning cars and filling paddling pools, on Friday, as part of efforts to protect supplies in the face of yet more dry weather forecast for the coming weeks.
South East Water said demand for drinking water had reached 'record levels since May' and announced impending restrictions which will mean customers in Kent and Sussex are banned from using a hosepipe to water gardens and plants, clean vehicles, fill swimming pools or ponds or clean paths, walls or windows from July 18.
Those who ignore the bans could face fines of up to £1000.
National Rail warned train passengers that the hot weather may cause disruption this weekend.
Meanwhile, the RNLI warned beachgoers that, despite the heat, there is still a risk of cold water shock.
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CANTWELL: You mean at this moment? MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes, did it function as intended? SEN. CANTWELL: Well, I think what- what's happening here, and we need to take a pause. Glad the president and first lady went, and definitely there's a lot of things being said, but what the real question is, is what can we do to improve the weather forecasting of this nation? To use science, to use better assets, to really do a once in a lifetime investment to upgrade the system so that we could have given people in Kerrville a- more time, more warning and the same for tornadoes and hurricanes and fires. And so I think what we're learning is that in this last week, we've had four events that have all broken huge records for weather and precipitation. That means more flooding. So we know now we're having more extreme weather. What is our response to that to make sure we never have another Kerrville again. MARGARET BRENNAN: So more extreme weather, more stress is on the system. At the same time, you have the Trump administration at least proposing that they're going to do a 27% budget cut to NOAA. The Commerce Secretary, though, said he's not going to touch public for- forecasting. We've seen, though, on the Democratic side, Leader Schumer say there should be an investigation about whether staff cuts, for example, led to or contributed to the Texas disaster. Are Democrats being too quick here to blame the politics? SEN. CANTWELL: You know, I liked your-- MARGARET BRENNAN: You're not. SEN. CANTWELL: I liked your opening story about the GAO report and saw what my colleagues presented. You know, I was on that call the day the President was shot and base- shot and-- MARGARET BRENNAN: You're talking about Butler. SEN. CANTWELL: In Butler. And I basically asked the question on the call that day, did you guys use drones? There was like dead silence. So I'm glad now that GAO, a respected arm of our organization and government, is producing a report. Do you want the same kind of report a year from now? Yes. What we want is to make sure that we understand what happened, but doing blame gaming isn't going to bring people back. But the press has every right to ask hard questions to try to figure out what- what do we need to do to improve weather forecasting, to-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I ask that because the DNC and Democratic leaders have said things like this, you're talking in substantial, specific-- SEN. CANTWELL: Yes, yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: --policy language. That's not what's coming from leadership. That's why I'm asking. SEN. CANTWELL: Well, what's important to know is that in this particular storm, what we had is very warm surface conditions in the Gulf. We had- that meant the storm was going to move slower. It meant it was going to drop more precipitation. We as a nation shouldn't be second to Europe or anybody in being a weather-ready nation. We should be the smartest government in the world, using technology, analyzing the data and putting a forecast system into place that gives people that kind of system. So just recently, in- in the Midwest, that work by NOAA and the weather forecasting system and the labs helped give information about how to get out of the way of a tornado two hours in advance, not 15 minutes or 13 minutes, but two hours. And I'm going to send a letter to the President making five recommendations, and some of them are very bipartisan recommendations, things that Senator Cruz or Wicker or Moran support, that basically make this once in a lifetime investment. So we have the best information, the best analysis, the best people to interpret that on the ground for the local responders and let's help Americans get out of the way of a storm. 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I gotta drill down on exactly what he thinks is going to happen on the science mission and how we're going to preserve that, because the nation is now spending billions of dollars on storms. In fact, Susan Collins and I had a report from GAO a few- in the last year that showed how much we were spending on the impacts of- of climate and extreme weather. So the point is, it's a minuscule investment to keep some of the science research functions at NOAA to help them better prepare people for hurricanes, for tornadoes and floods. It's a minuscule amount of money. And so we want to be smarter about it, and the more you can move people and resources out of the way of a storm, the more you can predict what might happen, the better prepared we're going to be, and that's going to help us save lives and certainly save dollars. So I want to- I want to get from him exactly how he thinks that this is going to work. But he did say some positive things about the structure. People don't understand, but NOAA is really a science arm of our government to make all of this for the nation and the weather service. So they literally have to fund the hurricane hunters, those are the planes that fly into a hurricane, and we've helped support that in the past in a bipartisan way. It basically funds these- the research that really- I think probably where Europe is right now is they just do better analysis of the data. They're not doing anything extraordinarily better than us. They're probably just spending more time. And if that is a few million dollars and supercomputing time, we should do it. MARGARET BRENNAN: Speaking of Europe and the trade conversation the President has renewed just on Saturday, saying he's going to put tariffs on the European Union, and up them on- on Mexico as well, by August 1st. You know, there's been a lot of concern about what it would do to the economy. The stock market seems to be brushing off the impact. Out in your state, Boeing, huge contributor to the U.S. economy, is headquartered there. In fact, they had a 27% increase in airplane deliveries in June. Eight to China, because there's been this sort of cooling off with them. If that's on the back burner, are you less concerned about the trade war? SEN. CANTWELL: Oh no, no, no, no. I'm very concerned we're in an endless summer of trade war, tariffs and chaos. I'm very concerned about this. It is impacting our businesses. We are one of the most trade dependent states in the nation, but it's impacting our ports. I mean literally, trade with our ports is, you know, at least 20% down over last year, the month of May from the previous year. The Association of Washington Businesses is releasing a study that they've previewed with us, and of their membership, 75% of them have said they already are impacted by the tariffs. About-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Those are medium sized businesses, or-- SEN. CANTWELL: Yes, there are- probably a few would define as large. But they're saying that- 30% of them are saying that they basically have already raised costs in some way, and 15% of them said we've either laid off people or are planning to lay off people in the future. So for us, we are seeing the economic impacts of this and our competitiveness, even though people have planned with storing a lot of material, you know, getting supplies in, trying to prepare for this, this up and down, you know, is really having an effect on costs. MARGARET BRENNAN: So it sounds like you're saying at this point, we haven't yet seen fully or felt fully the economic impact. So for the market to be betting that the President is either going to back down or that this isn't as hurtful as some predicted, you're saying just wait and see. SEN. CANTWELL: Oh, I think the market has been very clear. 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