{"id":347801,"date":"2026-05-29T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-britains-most-intense-may-heatwave-turned-deadly\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:00:30","slug":"how-britains-most-intense-may-heatwave-turned-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-britains-most-intense-may-heatwave-turned-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"How Britain&#8217;s most intense May heatwave turned deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hyTQBjjEQrw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Britain's most intense May heatwave turned deadly\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyTQBjjEQrw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>May has never seen such heat with record-breaking temperatures day and night.<\/p>\n<p>Several records were broken earlier this week, with the 35.1C recorded in Kew Gardens not only setting a new record for May but also beating Kew&#8217;s highest June temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Wales also set a new national May record on Tuesday, reaching 32.9C in Cardiff, while on Tuesday night, a new nighttime record was set in Camborne, Cornwall, with the minimum temperature falling no lower than 21.4C.<\/p>\n<p>But with the hot temperatures came tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old boy has become the twelfth person to drown during the May heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Bracklinn Falls near Callander in Stirlingshire on Thursday evening, responding to reports that a person was in difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>As the country took stock of the impact, one corner of England was rapidly running out of one essential resource.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Whitstable are still without water supply during the hot spell of weather as storage reservoirs for the area \u201creached a critical level\u201d, South East Water said.<\/p>\n<p>Queues of people lined up at a bottled water collection point at a Sainsbury\u2019s, as the water company said 8,000 customers were without supply.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the firm urged customers to use water for essential purposes only \u2013 for drinking, washing and cooking, as supply issues continued from over the hot bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, trains also became disrupted as a result of the hot weather. <\/p>\n<p>So if this is the new normal, will anything change to prevent tragedy from repeating itself? 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