The UK is already seeing increasingly extreme weather, with 2020 the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest year on record.
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.
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