The record-breaking June heat is expected to continue into Friday according to forecaster.
Temperatures across Oxfordshire climbed up and into the 30s yesterday, as the UK's recorded its hottest June day record was broken for a third time, with highs of 36C in Surrey and Hampshire.
The breaking of the 50-year record came as the Met Office issued a red extreme heat warning for the county and other parts of the southeast of England from 9am on Wednesday, June 24, until 9pm today, Thursday, June 25.
An amber warning warning is still in place in the South East of England until midnight on Friday, as the Met Office warn the figure could be "beaten again".
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Temperatures by day are widely expected to exceed 30 Celsius, with the hottest areas potentially peaking around 38 Celsius in eastern and central England.
If temperatures reach 39C, that would make it the second hottest day in the UK on record.
If 38C is recorded, that is still in the top five days ever recorded and hotter than any day of the 20th century.
The heatwave, causing by a "heat dome" settling over Europe, has brough extreme conditions, closing at least 1,000 schools in England and Wales and disrupting rail services.
Professor Stephen Belcher, chief scientist for the Met Office, said it is “sobering” to see temperatures as high as this in June.
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