By 3.30pm the temperature had risen to 30.8C at the airport, the warmest since 19 July 2016 when it reached 32.6C. Alderney Airport peaked at 30.5C.
Friends and tourists Fleur Tibbitts, 50, and Kim Withoos, 45, said they were looking forward to getting back to the air conditioning in their hotel.
‘We’re going to the cinema around lunch-time, so that we avoid the worst of the heat,’ said Ms Tibbitts, who has come from the Cotswolds on holiday.
‘Also, we’ve made sure that we have put plenty of sunscreen on too.’
Ms Withoos added: ‘I’m from Australia, so for me this is quite cool and I even told my mum about the heatwave weather and she said that it was nothing, but we do want to keep safe.’
Sandy Enfield, 55, also said she did not want to get too hot.
‘At lunchtime, we’re going to go to the museum,’ she said.
‘It’s really nice but we need to be aware of the dangers of too much sun, I might cool down with an ice cream later.’
As the temperature is expected to stay high over the next couple of days director of public health Dr Nicola Brink has some key messages, which include, staying out of the heat at peak times between 11am and 3pm, wearing sunscreen and a hat, avoid extreme physical exertion, wearing light, loose-fitting cotton clothes, and also keeping cool and hydrated.
She added: ‘The purpose of raising awareness about heatwaves is to reduce summer deaths and illness by raising public awareness and triggering actions to support people to stay safe in hot weather.’
The warmest day last year was 28.1C and, in 2017, 27.9C, Guernsey Met has said.
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