World News Wales and Northern Ireland See Hottest August Bank Holiday Monday on Record

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Usually, when you think of the UK and a bank holiday, you often think of rain and a dreadful day. Today it was a bank holiday, and the weather was the complete opposite of what we thought it would be.

Did you make the most of the warmer weather this bank holiday?

Wales and Northern Ireland have recorded their warmest August bank holiday Monday temperatures.

It was 29.1C (84.3F) at Hawarden, Flintshire, and earlier in the day it was 28.1C (82.5F) at Gogerddan, which beat the previous record of 26.5C (79.7F) set in Crossway, Gwent, in 1991.

Meanwhile, the mercury hit 24.5C (76.1F) in Magilligan, County Derry/County Londonderry compared with the previous record of 23.8C (74.8F) at Banagher, County Derry/County Londonderry, in 1983.

Source: Sky News