When will the sunshine return? Met Office reveals when the UK will see warmer temperatures after weeks of showers
It comes after the weather agency said the scorching heatwave of 2022 will be considered mild by the year 2100 if carbon emissions continue at the same rate.as long as people continue to emit greenhouse gases unchecked, forecasters said.
Mike Kendon, climate scientist at the Met Office and lead author of its new report, called State Of The UK Climate 2022, described the 40C mark as "a real moment of climate history". "This was a rare event in the context of the current climate but our extremes of temperature are changing faster than our mean temperature and we know that climate change increases the frequency, duration and spatial extent of heat waves," he said.
Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said: "If you look at future climate projections, we are on a path to go for hotter, drier summers.
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