Climate change projections say that global warming will make these events more likely, with heatwaves growing more intense, more frequent and longer-lasting
Earlier this week, the EU's earth observation programme Copernicus warned hundreds of millions of people have been impacted by these heatwaves -"with implications for health and wellbeing, agriculture and food supplies, energy prices and demand, and natural ecosystem".
Copernicus added that while these heatwaves were exceptional, they are not unexpected - and they are set to continue as the climate continues to warm globally.Read more:Back in the UK, provisional figures from the Met Office show the average mean temperature for June 2022 was 13.9C - 0.6C higher than the long-term average between 1991 and 2020.
Dr Mark McCarthy of the National Climate Information Centre said:"This doesn't mean that cooler months won't still occur, such is the natural variability of the UK climate, but a warming trend for the UK over a longer period is consistent with what we've seen in our climate figures."
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