1. Actually there is no official definition in the UK of a heatwave, though the Meteorological Office is said to be working on producing one.
2. The World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva defines it as a period of more than five consecutive days when the daily maximum exceeds the normal temperature by five degrees Celsius.
3. Worldwide, heatwaves and droughts kill more people than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes.
4. A heatwave in France in 2003 is thought to have caused around 15,000 deaths.
5. A temperature of 35.4C has been recorded on London Tube trains, which is five degrees above the permitted maximum for transporting cattle.
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6. Fish have had to be rescued from several British rivers as the heat lowers oxygen levels in the water.
7. Sales of ice-cream cornets in June exceeded last year’s figures by 24 per cent.
8. The term “heatwave” was first used in its modern sense to refer to a period of very hot weather in New York and the UK in 1892.
9. The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK was 38.5C in Faversham, Kent in 2003.
10. One-in-three Britons, according to survey, take days off work to sunbathe during a heatwave.