London Heathrow records hottest ever temperature after Met Office says UK provisionally had its warmest night
Thunder, lightning and downpours bringing cooler temperatures have been met with relief by Cornwall residents.As temperatures passed 40C for the first time in the UK, storms cooled Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures in the low 20s in Penzance on Tuesday.
Scotland could see its highest day on record, beyond the 32.9C set at Greycrook in the Scottish Borders in August 2003 Jennifer Leonard, water and land manager for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency , said the country was “on a countdown to significant water scarcity”, with the prospect of suspending authorisation for businesses that use large amounts of water.
There is also natural variability which means we won’t break records year by year in a single country or region but “the direction is clear”, he said. “We have already pumped so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the negative effects will continue for the coming decades,” he said. He added that these events are “wake-up calls for human beings”, many decades after climate scientists first began talking about climate change in the 1980s. “Most people didn’t believe in our scenarios which we’ve now been able to demonstrate are taking place,” he said.Maria Neira, the director of public health at the World Health Organization, warned that the combination of heatwave and pollution could exacerbate respiratory illnesses.
He added that we have better means to adapt to those changes now but noted that the same people who were vulnerable during the pandemic are vulnerable during heatwaves. “We expect to see increased deaths among the old and sick people,” he said.
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