Heatwaves in Lincolnshire to "get hotter"

The threshold for being declared a heatwave in the county is going up

Sun
Published 29th Mar 2022

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

The Met Office is raising the threshold for the county to 27 Celsius.

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

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

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