On 30 June, 11:00, Graham P Davis wrote:
wrote:
Does 30-31 C at the end of June represent a "heatwave" ?

Don't you think that temperatures about ten degrees above the average
deserves to be called a heat-wave?

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

No, and neither does the OED

"heatwave

• noun: a prolonged period of abnormally hot weather."