UK records highest ever May temperature for second day in a row
The UK has experienced its highest-ever May temperatures for two consecutive days, reaching 35C at Heathrow. This follows a previous record of 34.8C at Kew Gardens, marking a significant increase from the previous May peak of 32.8C set in 1922. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms as the heatwave continues across the country.
- ▪Heathrow recorded a temperature of 35C, the highest ever for May in the UK.
- ▪The previous May record was 32.8C, set in 1922.
- ▪The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across England.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 26 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 1 centre.
- ▪ UK temperatures break May records for second day in a row — BBC News — UK
- ▪ Record May highs sweep across France as extreme heat hits western Europe — World news | The Guardian
The Guardian — UK publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under news. We currently carry 849 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Guardian — UK |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/26/uk-records-highest-ever-may-temperature-for-second-day-in-a-row |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 14:17:41 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T14:32:49.916Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T14:32:49.916Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6ErtrlLAxd83 · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
London has recorded temperatures in the mid-30s for two consecutive days. Photograph: Jack Taylor/ReutersView image in fullscreenLondon has recorded temperatures in the mid-30s for two consecutive days. Photograph: Jack Taylor/ReutersUK weatherUK records highest ever May temperature for second day in a rowTemperature reaches 35C at Heathrow on Tuesday after 34.8C high at Kew Gardens in London on Monday Tell us: how are you coping in the UK heatwave? Kevin RawlinsonTue 26 May 2026 10.17 EDTLast modified on Tue 26 May 2026 10.28 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe UK has recorded its highest-ever May temperature for the second consecutive day, as thermometers hit 35C (95F) at Heathrow and Kew Gardens in London, the Met Office said.The latest high was recorded the day after the…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Guardian — UK.