Naked man strolls through Newcastle town centre on hottest day of year

This was the moment a man walked through Newcastle town centre in his birthday suit on one of the hottest days of the year so far.

Temperatures hit 24C in the city yesterday, but soared to 28C today – and it seems some are desperate to escape the heat.

Onlookers were left stunned after spotting the fully-naked man, who wasn’t even wearing shoes, on the High Street shortly after 5 pm on Saturday.

The man was casually walking past shoppers near the Guild Hall, before further footage showed him sprinting across a roundabout.

It comes as today, temperatures have got so high in London that Wimbledon fans were urged not to travel.

Wimbledon is set for its hottest opening day ever, with temperatures expected to surpass the previous record of 29.3°C set on June 25, 2001.

The hottest day the tournament has seen was on July 1, 2015, when temperatures reached 35.7°C.

In Scotland, brave gamekeepers took on raging wildfires armed only with a leafblower to stop the spread to rural communities.

Much of England will enter a fourth day of a heatwave, forecast to be hotter than holiday spots in Barbados, Jamaica and Mexico.

Since 1960, UK temperatures in June have surpassed 34°C in only three years, with the hottest being 35.6°C, recorded on June 28, 1976, during the hottest and longest heatwave ever recorded.

But an expert told Metro that scorching 40C temperatures will soon become the ‘new normal’ in the UK.

Jim Dale said that the UK and the rest of the world are in danger of ‘boiling over’ as extreme heat becomes a regular occurrence due to climate change.  

Mr Dale spoke as the country bakes on the fourth day of a heatwave that is predicted to set a record-breaking 34C (93.2F) plus for the month of June.

He has spent the last 40 years warning about the impact of global warming and now believes the planet is close to a tipping point.

‘Yes, from time to time, in the past 50 or 100 years, we have had heatwaves,’ Mr Dale said. ‘However, the top 10 global and UK temperatures have nearly all come in the last 20 years.

‘This is the new abnormal.  The dots are very clear, and they make a picture; one of records falling left, right and centre.’

Firefighters in Turkey and France were responding today as both countries experienced extreme heat, with readings exceeding 40C (104F) in both countries over the past week.  

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