![]() “Climate change has already influenced the likelihood of temperature extremes in the UK. “We hoped we wouldn’t get to this situation,” the Met Office’s climate attribution scientist Nikos Christidis said in a statement. It’s also clearly a sign of how rapidly the climate crisis is altering our weather. UK forecasters issue first-ever 'red' warning for exceptional heat with all-time records poised to topple A Level 3 Heat-Health alert for London, the East of England and the South East has been announced to help protect health services, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said, Friday. People cool off beside the fountains in Trafalgar Square in central London on June 17, 2022, on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far in the capital. The country’s hottest temperature ever measured was 38.7 degrees Celsius at the Cambridge Botanic Garden in 2019. To be clear, this would be truly record-breaking heat. Highs could approach 40 degrees Celsius (around 104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time – a prediction that prompted meteorologists there to issue a “red” heat warning for the first time ever. Temperatures are forecast to run 10 to 15 degrees warmer than normal early next week in the UK. ![]() In 30 years, this forecast will seem rather typical. “Today, the forecast for Tuesday is shockingly almost identical for large parts of the country,” Simon tweeted, adding in a later post that “what is coming on Tuesday gives an insight into the future.” Simon Lee, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University in New York, noted the striking similarity between the 2050 outlook and the forecast for early next week in the UK. Today, the forecast for Tuesday is shockingly almost identical for large parts of the country. In 2020, the produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections. Well, on Monday and Tuesday, the “plausible” becomes reality – 28 years early. “Examples of plausible weather based on climate projections.” ![]() “Not actual weather forecast,” the Met Office’s graphics said. So meteorologists at the UK Met Office – the official weather forecast agency for the UK – dove in to the super long-range climate models in the summer of 2020 to see what kind of temperatures they’d be forecasting in about three decades. The climate crisis is pushing weather to the extreme all over the world, and temperatures in the northern latitudes have been particularly sensitive to these changes. Two years ago, forecasters in the UK conducted an interesting thought experiment: What will our forecasts look like in 2050? ![]()
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