{"id":370662,"date":"2025-08-24T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:13:12","slug":"uk-weather-has-the-british-summer-changed-beyond-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370662\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Has the British summer changed beyond recognition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there is no doubt our summers have changed, you may well argue that they have not yet shifted beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, changes look set to accelerate in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/climate-change\/climate-change-in-the-uk\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Met Office, external<\/a>, the hottest summer days in 2070 will be 4-7C (7-13F) warmer than they were in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the south of the UK, having two days in a row when temperatures get above 30C (86F) will be 16 times more likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the start of the next century in 2100, highs of 40C (104F) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-62217282\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only recorded once before, in 2022<\/a> &#8211; could be commonplace, happening every three or four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time, more intense summer downpours will lead to the risk of flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge for government, local authorities, health services, and all of us, will be in adapting to the many changes that lie ahead as the world continues to warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there is no doubt our summers have changed, you may well argue that they have not yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-370662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115085810480467062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}