Those warm winds from North Africa also sent temperatures sky-high across much of the UK, reaching 24.5C at Kew Gardens on Tuesday, and yesterday’s provisional highest temperature hitting 23.9C at Weybourne, Norfolk. On its own, this freakishly hot spell may simply be a vagary of the British climate. More significant, though, is there have been seven new records for monthly high temperatures for the UK over the past 20 years, and yet no record low monthly temperatures over the same period. SponsoredThis March was also warm in Japan. In Kyoto the cherry blossom season peaked on March

Source: The North Africa Journal March 31, 2021 23:00 UTC