UK Heads for Another Sweltering Summer Driven by Global Warming
It’s still too early to tell if the country will see another record-breaking 40C day, meteorologists said.
A pedestrian uses a umbrella to protect herself from the sun, at Canary Wharf, during a heatwave in London, UK, on Monday, July 18, 2022.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/BloombergThis summer in the UK is expected to be hotter than normal, though temperatures aren’t forecast to break last year’s record-setting level yet.
Early signs suggest higher-than-average heat is likely to occur in the UK and across southern Europe for the rest of the month and the beginning of July, according to climate scientists from the Met Office and the bloc’s Earth observation agency Copernicus. But it’s hard to predict whether Britain will see another day with mercury breaching the 40C (104F) mark like the one that occurred last July.