The World Is Burning Once Again
We can only adapt so much to extreme heat.
In September 2020, the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office published a for a mid-July day in the year 2050. Forty degrees Celsius in London. (That’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit.) Thirty-eight in Hull (100 degrees F). Thirty-nine in Birmingham (102 degrees F). These were preposterous numbers, never before seen in U.K. weather forecasts, much less felt in reality—until last week. On Friday, the Met Office published an for Tuesday that, as several observers , looked scarily similar to its 2050 projections. And today, as predicted, the U.K. smashed its previous heat record, a provisional reading of 40.3
