Britain could experience its first 40C day within ten years as intense heatwaves become more frequent, scientists have warned.
If carbon emissions continue to rise and global warming is not curbed the UK will cross the 40C threshold more and more often, modelling suggests. Under the worst projections, by the end of the century this temperature would be reached every three years.
Last weeks heatwave peaked at 32.2C at Heathrow on Tuesday, and Northern Ireland recorded its highest ever temperature of 31.4C in Armagh on Thursday. By the weekend the hot spell had given way to cooler and unsettled weather.
But Chloe Brimicombe, a heatwave hazards researcher at the University of Reading, said last weeks uncomfortable heat could soon be put in the shade. Southern
Britain could experience its first 40C day within ten years as intense heatwaves become more frequent, scientists have warned.If carbon emissions continue to rise and global warming is not curbed the
