The Met Office has said likelihood of exceeding 40C is 'increasingly likely' as it release its State of the UK Climate report for 2022
Experts have said extreme heat and temperatures of more than 40C are becoming increasingly likely in the UK due to climate change as the Met Office prepares to publish its annual report.
Climate experts have warned that the 40C heat seen last year would not be possible without climate change and that Britain is underprepared for increasingly likely extreme weather events.Oli Claydon, from the Met Office, said the 40C milestone is still viewed as an “extreme weather event” but it is going to be increasingly more likely in the UK as the years go on.
“So as well as the need to mitigate against future climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, we’re already experiencing the impacts of climate change now, so there’s already a need to adapt to the types of weather extremes that we can see in the UK.” She said: “If the Government fails to show more leadership in preparing for these extreme heat events, then we are likely to see a rise in heat-related deaths, wider impacts on workers’ health and productivity, and increasing rates of overheating in UK homes and buildings that are ill-equipped to stay cool in the summer.”
On what the UK should do to prepare for warmer weather, he said: “The most important thing is we need to try to understand as well as we can what the Met Office is telling us about our own weather systems and what precautions need to be taken in our own houses because if it’s extremely hot, you ought to keep out of the sunshine, but it doesn’t help if indoors it is very, very warm.
He said: “This should be galvanising our leaders into delivering meaningful action, yet the Prime Minister is reportedly planning to weaken the UK’s existing green policies and ministers have vowed to extract every last drop of North Sea oil and gas.
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