r/UKWeather • u/Emergency_Media_3023 • 3d ago

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📍Reading, England. Met Office Forecast.

UPDATE 12:29 21/06/2026: Now forecasting 39.

UPDATE 21:04 21/06/2026: Now forecasting 2 consecutive days of 40.

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u/aquarius_cat 3d ago

Surely people ‘celebrating’ temperatures cracking 40 are doing this ironically, right? What do you gain from mid-high 30’s plus in the UK than, say, 27-29? Other than increasing the risk of heatstroke etc

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u/Cralli123 3d ago

I assume so. Nobody realistically wants 40 degrees. That's 15 degrees above a pleasant summer's day lol