Heatwave threshold rises for Berkshire

It'll now have to get even hotter

Author: Sharon PlummerPublished 29th Mar 2022

From now on, it'll have to get even hotter for a heatwave to be declared in Berkshire.

The Met Office is raising the threshold for the county by 1 degree, to 28 Celsius.

Five other counties have also seen their threshold rise - Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, , Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Surrey must also see 28C, while it'll be 27C for Lincolnshire and 26C for East Yorkshire.

A heatwave's formally declared after three days of a certain temperature in an area.

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