Yes, it flipping is...
I was reminded of this site, which I use when teaching a Y6 unit on extreme weather.
I've never seen a temperature difference from the average quite as high as it is today. It's not pleasant.
Bill McGuire's piece in 'The Guardian' suggests we need to get used to this sort of thing. Bill McGuire will be speaking at the PTI Geography Symposium - see you there I hope!
It imagines a future of unrelenting heat and societal breakdown...
And finishes with this paragraph:
As the UK Climate Change Committee flagged last week in its latest report to the government, our country is not built to handle such heat and its all-pervasive ramifications. More than nine in 10 homes are not well insulated enough to keep out the heat, while by 2050 there is forecast to be a daily shortfall in water supply of 5bn litres. The three worst UK harvests all occurred in the period from 2020 to 2025, contributing to the loss of grain equivalent to a year’s worth of bread supply. We currently import 40% of our food, but as the harvests of other countries are also increasingly affected by extreme weather, we will no longer be able to rely on this continuing. The world’s second-biggest producer, India, recently banned all exports of sugar for four months. Such a policy of “we hold what we have” will only become more prevalent as climate breakdown takes an ever greater toll on global agriculture.
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