It was not quite the hottest day ever but for many of us it certainly felt like it, as top temperatures in Cambridge reached just over 38 degrees Celsius, a shade over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit, while other countries across Europe have also been smashing their all time heat records.
From a near riot at an outdoor swimming pool to buckling railways – Britain’s infrastructure just isn’t set up for this kind of heat. We’ll get more analysis from our weather presenter Liam Dutton in a moment – first here’s Minnie Stephenson.