{"id":1051557,"date":"2026-06-26T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:03:19","slug":"london-weather-live-hottest-june-day-ever-in-capital-as-heatwave-sends-temperatures-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051557\/","title":{"rendered":"London weather LIVE: Hottest June day ever in capital as heatwave sends temperatures soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More pictures: Friday&#8217;s heatwave in London<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been another scorching day in the capital, as the record for the hottest June day ever in London has been broken.<\/p>\n<p>A provisional recording of 36C was taken around 2pm in Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some images of Londoners enjoying (or struggling with) the sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01KW246VGBMAV0KC6FKHX0HH31.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman drinks from a drinking fountain in Greenwich Park<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01KW21MYFHS0ZNME5MX09CHMGD.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Greenwich Park, London, take a picture from the viewpoint<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01KW22JHXJYM8GHSJCTGDB4VF4.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman finds shelter from the sun as she walks through the Queen&#8217;s House colonnade at Greenwich Park<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01KW24Z6YWYK77K0F8KD3EHT9G.jpg\" width=\"5440\" height=\"3624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman drinks from a drinking fountain in Greenwich Park<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More pictures: Friday&#8217;s heatwave in London It\u2019s been another scorching day in the capital, as the record for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,2461,52965,257,1142,6467,21836,16,15],"class_list":["post-1051557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-heatwave","tag-lightning","tag-london","tag-met-office","tag-temperatures","tag-thunderstorms","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116817022935465718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}