Climate Change Is Increasing Threat to UK From Heat Waves
High-pressure patterns have set up many of the UK’s most damaging heat events.
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Global warming is boosting the number of hot summer days in the UK and intensifying heat waves, with an outside chance that temperatures could eclipse the records of Mediterranean capitals like Rome.
Almost three years ago, the UK breached 40C (104F) for the first time on record. Now a new Met Office study shows that temperature — and even hotter conditions — are 20 times more likely to occur than in the 1960s.