{"id":762551,"date":"2026-06-26T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:01:12","slug":"june-heat-record-broken-for-third-day-in-a-row-as-wildfires-burn-and-areas-on-alert-for-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762551\/","title":{"rendered":"June heat record broken for third day in a row as wildfires burn and areas on alert for flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your photos: Dramatic lightning seen around the countrypublished at 13:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:03 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hot weather has ushered thunderstorms into the UK, sparking dramatic displays of lightning around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of 10:00 this morning, more than 63,000 lightning strikes had been recorded in a 24-hour period, the Met Office says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second lightning storm in five days was in the west of England, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c7vy8ql6rgnt?post=asset%3A4a33276e-58c6-4077-a51d-18b3ad8bcc72#post\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one strike causing a fire at a nursing home in Glastonbury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lightning turned the sky purple above the River Avon in Bristol\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b5b4abf9-6676-4799-a489-5650330a371d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Matthew HarrisImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lightning turned the sky purple above the River Avon in Bristol<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 32,000 lightning strikes have been seen in Scotland in the last 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The thundery weather came after Scotland recorded its hottest day of the year on Thursday, with temperatures peaking at 31.2C in Threave, Dumfries and Galloway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A long strand of lighting stetches over Edinburgh. It can be seen splintering into different strands to the left of the picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/393fbf34-1093-441c-ad61-b3e5e67399ca.jpg.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Weather Watchers &#8211; Alice EImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thunderstorms and heavy rain were seen in Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar displays were also seen in the island of Ireland as many watched in awe as almost 9,000 strikes lit up the skies, during a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; experience, one resident said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dramatic lightning display lasted more than an hour and was witnessed mostly in Counties Londonderry and nearby Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two lightning strikes can be seen behind a dark cloud in the distance above the county of Londonderry. The city is lit up by street lights in the front of the picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c8c003b6-0a85-4823-b4fe-fddb50e25e1d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Patryk SadowskiImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The skies above the county of Londonderry on Thursday night<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over in Wales, lightning forked and tore across the sky in Pembrokeshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales recorded its hottest June day and highest temperature of the year so far on Thursday when 35.9C was recorded in Bute Park, Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lightning cuts across a dark sky in the south west of wales\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/946b68b3-fa65-4622-8a45-c2ab6e594e80.jpg.webp\"  width=\"645\" height=\"483\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Debra AngelImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lightning forks in Pembrokeshire, Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orange lightning strikes were also seen close to Mont Orgueil Castle in Jersey in the Channel Islands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two orange lightning strikes are seen in the sea next to Mount Orgueil Castle in Jersey\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/36315a5b-b698-4474-a571-f2fa1e9d593f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Andrew BattersbyImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lightning over Mont Orgueil Castle in Gorey, Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your photos: Dramatic lightning seen around the countrypublished at 13:03 BST 13:03 BST The hot weather has ushered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-762551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}