Heatwave could hit 43C after 'warmest night on record' sparks 'terrible' train crash fears

dailystar.co.uk:

Met Office has confirmed what millions of knackered people in the UK will have woken up thinking today (July 19), but there is to be no let up just yet.

UK weather forecasts show the nation will get hotter before cooling off again with the mercury predicted to reach in some regions, a staggering 43C which is expected to draw the country to a standstill.READ MORE: Blistering Britain broke down on its hottest-ever day – and there is worse to come todayNever mind applying sun cream, simply stepping outside is one of several things medical experts are advising against while Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has urged Brits to "apply common sense", explaining train tracks will feel like 70C."Where those tracks are 40 degrees in the air, on the ground that could be 50, 60, 70 and more," Mr Shapps said. "So you get a severe danger of tracks buckling, what we can't have is trains running over those and a terrible derailing."In a tweet, the UK's national weather service announced: "It has provisionally been the warmest night on record in the UK."Temperatures didn't fall below 25C in places, exceeding the previous highest daily minimum record of 23.9C, recorded in Brighton on 3rd August 1990." A graphic accompanying the tweet showed the highest overnight minimum temperatures recorded were 24.5C in Aberporth, west Wales, 25.8C in Kenley, in the London Borough of Croydon, and 25.9C in Emley Moor, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Hospital A&E departments across the UK are already at boiling point as patients suffering the effects of the brutal heatwave overflow through the doors.The heatwave death toll of young people has tragically already made it to ten fatalities — largely from drowning in unfamiliar waters while trying to cool.