Summer temperatures will regularly exceed 40°C in the UK even in a best-case scenario of just 1.5C of global warming, meteorologists have warned.
Data shows that the period 1991-2020 was 0.9C warmer and 6% wetter than the preceding 30 years and that six of the 10 wettest years for the UK since 1862 have happened since 1998. Early August 2020 saw temperatures hit 34°C on six consecutive days, with five ‘tropical nights’ where the mercury did not drop below 20°C, making it one of the most significant heatwaves to affect southern England in the past 60 years.
She warned of the danger of seeing warmer weather through ‘rose-tinted glasses’ as extreme heat will bring many problems. Temperatures have reached 34°C in the UK in seven of the last 10 years, compared to seven out of the previous 50 years before that.
What a load of tosh,
The big picture is very worrying but, imo, one thing we should be doing is retaining much more of this rainfall so that we don't have water shortages in the future.
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