The Times:
Perfectly timed heatwave stops economy from cooling down
9 May 2018
The record-breaking bank holiday heatwave was perfectly timed to boost Britain’s economy after a decidedly cool start to the year, experts said yesterday. Economists suggested that the hot spell was likely to have helped businesses to recover some ground after the Beast from the East brought heavy snow in February. … “If it had been in the middle of a working week you might expect that people would have been more tempted to skive off work,” Anna Valero, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said. “But given that everybody has just had a few days of it, most of us will have had enough sun and are happy to go back to work.”