00:02It was just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon local time when the UK recorded its hottest
00:07June day on record, with the temperature exceeding 36 degrees in some areas.
00:13The UK's weather service, the Met Office, had been anticipating this and issued a rare
00:18red alert weather warning, warning that there is danger from this type of extreme heat.
00:24More than 1,500 schools across England and Wales have been closed.
00:28Trains are affected, services are either cancelled or slowed down, the tube is stifling, the
00:35buses are boiling and many people have been encouraged to work from home.
00:39There was an event planned today at the London School of Economics about tackling extreme
00:44heat and climate change.
00:45It too has fallen victim to the very topic it was trying to address.
00:51Very few houses here in the UK have air conditioning, so fans are flying off the shelves at department
00:57stores as people try to cool their homes down.
01:00Local public pools have been crowded because the beach is at least an hour away for most
01:05people.
01:05And here in London, public parks are proving very popular as people try to cool down under
01:11the shade of a tree.
01:12I feel like we're not as prepped to it as other countries, like we don't really have aircon
01:17and we struggle with, I don't know, it kind of feels like a sauna on the tube because we're
01:21not prepped for it at all.
01:22It's hot.
01:23It's a bit too much.
01:25Challenging.
01:25Challenging.
01:26Yeah, very much so.
01:27We're not used to it in this country.
01:29It is roasting.
01:30I'm sweating like nothing normal.
01:33I'm not bad for this heat.
01:35It is a bit of a pain trying to cool off though, but if you find some shade it's nice.
01:38These conditions here in the UK and across Europe are expected to last until the end
01:43of the week.
