A LOUD explosion was heard near Heathrow airport as a heatwave grass fire spread to back gardens and set fences and decking alight. Crews battled to save 30 homes after the blaze erupted in minutes…
“Our drone team is on scene assisting crews with identifying further hot spots in the surrounding woodland.”Avni Dudhia, 32, said: "For around 40 minutes at least it was just flames and a lot of thick dark smoke."It was definitely scary as you could see how quickly the fire was spreading across the trees to the right, so much smoke too."Sharing a video online, he said: "Coming in to land at Heathrow just before 5pm today. The scorched fields.
A ten-day hosepipe ban has been set from next Friday, with more than two million Brits across Kent and Sussex alreadyAnd while temperatures over the coming days will remain lower than last month's scorching 43.C, the dry weather will continue over a "prolonged period", the Met Office has said. "In terms of temperatures we're looking at them build from 28C or 29C tomorrow to the low to mid 30s from Thursday onwards, so a fairly widespread heatwave developing across the UK this week.It does look like a prolonged period of dry weather and obviously that's bad news for southern England where some rain would really be useful now.
"We're quite confident temperatures will not go as high as they did during July, but the difference is that this is going to be quite a prolonged period of temperatures in the low 30s, so it will be very notable nonetheless."impose hosepipe bans during an unusually dry August.
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