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Britain’s record summer temperature could be about to fall with the ingredients in place for the hottest summer ever.As the mercury this week rockets to 30C, experts say tropical conditions through the season could put July 2022’s 40.3C under threat.High pressure, the driver of hot weather, combined with a southerly flow from Africa and warm ground after the hottest spring on record, will conspire to light the summer burners.While long-range […]

Britons have received an urgent heat warning as the UK looks set to bake in possibly the hottest June ever.Temperatures could soar to as high as 36C over the coming days, with the UK Health Security Agency warning of significant strains across health and social care services.Records are at tipping point as a simmering tropical plume surges in from the Mediterranean and North Africa.Temperatures will rocket through the week before […]

Labour has admitted there are potential security risks from sun dimming technology that could be deployed by hostile actors. The technology, officially known as solar radiation modification, aims to limit global warming by reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth.However, experts suggested there could be a knock-on impact this could have on other countries, with more than 560 academics signing an open letter calling for an "international non-use agreement." […]

A creeping tropical heat dome will slide across Britain to stoke a 30C heatwave lasting into midsummer.Swathes of the UK are warming up for the hottest spell of the year so far as the jet stream shifts and the mercury soars.The Azores High, the driver of glorious summer weather, will this week sweep up from the coast of Portugal.The outlook for the UK for the next two weeks is likely […]

The UK could face temperatures soaring to 40C by the end of June, according to weather forecast models that show exceptional heat is possible this early in the season.While it is unlikely to happen, extreme temperature scenarios have emerged from recent model runs, indicating that such intense heat could reach parts of the UK under current climate conditions.North African air sources, which influence British weather patterns, have been warming at […]

Torrential rain, thunder, lightning and hail will give way to a two-week blast of glorious summer sunshine.Britons are about to bake in a barbecue fortnight as a warmth sweeps in from the tropical Azores.A high-pressure heat dome will settle over the UK next week and is likely to stay wedged in place until the summer solstice.Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: “For the next two weeks, the favoured scenario is […]

Britons are bracing for two days of thunderstorms, hail and strong winds after the Met Office upgraded its storm warnings from yellow to amber.From 8pm on Friday evening, an area stretching from the south Kent coast to East Anglia has been handed a nine-hour long amber warning until 5am on Saturday morning.That comes alongside two yellow thunderstorm warnings - one, across broadly the same area as the amber alert, and […]

An Atlantic storm "trapped" in a loop in the jet stream will drive soaring temperatures, tropical humidity and thunderstorms.Freakish weather triggered by a wavy jet stretching from the United States will pull a monsoon deluge in from the Continent.Friday is expected to bring the peak of the heatwave as thermometers in southern regions nudge 30C.Fine, warm weather during the middle of the week will give way to outbreaks of thunder […]

Yorkshire is now in drought after one of the driest springs on record, the Environment Agency (EA) has said.At the end of April, parts of "God's Own Country" had seen just three inches of rainfall since the start of February - the lowest level since 1938.While in late May, rain fell in Sheffield for the first time in 27 days.Yorkshire Water had already launched drought plans after what bosses described […]