Well, a week on, and with at least 1 member (often more) of the ensembles showing record breaking heat on each day, we now have an amber Met Office warning for extreme heat covering most of England and western Wales for Sunday "into next week" https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather...ate=2022-07-17. Things are still uncertain (apart from the fact that it is definitely going to be hot), but broken records are still a possibility, as is 40C+ in parts of the south east.
There has been quite a lot on social media regarding this just being normal hot summer weather. A reminder, for those who think 40C is anything like normal:
Since records began there have been only 9 years when a temperature of 35C or more has been recorded in the UK. They are 1976, 1990, 1995, 2003, 2006, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020. Now 2022, in what should be a "cool" La Nina summer we are looking at a chance of breaking the all-time record, possibly by over a degree.
Frightening.
There has been quite a lot on social media regarding this just being normal hot summer weather. A reminder, for those who think 40C is anything like normal:
Since records began there have been only 9 years when a temperature of 35C or more has been recorded in the UK. They are 1976, 1990, 1995, 2003, 2006, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020. Now 2022, in what should be a "cool" La Nina summer we are looking at a chance of breaking the all-time record, possibly by over a degree.
Frightening.
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