The United Kingdom provisionally set a new June temperature record for the third consecutive day on Friday, with Santon Downham (a village in Suffolk, southeast England) reaching 37.3°C, according to the Met Office weather agency. The milestone surpasses a 50-year-old record of 35.6°C that had stood since 1976, and comes as the Met Office issued its highest-level red 'extreme heat' warning for an unprecedented three straight days. The heatwave has caused widespread disruption, with London Ambulance Service recording its highest single-day volume of life-threatening emergency calls, hundreds of schools closing, hospital IT and MRI systems failing, and London landmarks including Tower Bridge shutting their doors.