Channel 4 News
@channel4news·4.2M subscribers·26.4K videos
Highest temperature of the year as UK gripped by fifth heatwave
Posted
August 13, 2026
Views
31,201
Likes
445
Comments
275
Engagement
2.31%
August 13, 2026
31,201
445
275
2.31%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
11:52Now PlayingThursday’s amber extreme heat warning from the Met Office covered a huge area of central England, stretching from London to Sheffield. The temperature at Kew reached 38.1 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day of the year so far.
[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter]
Across the country, the tinder dry conditions have seen firecrews having to deal with numerous wild fire outbreaks.
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that hospitals and care homes are getting so hot, they aren't just causing difficulties for patients, and even some of the nursing staff are passing out while on shift.
And this latest heatwave, made more extreme by fossil fuel pollution, is not just causing problems for humans; zoos are also having to adapt to care for their animals.
-------
Get more news at our site
Subscribe to our Substack newsletter
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
