{"id":80047,"date":"2026-07-15T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/uks-extreme-weather-is-the-new-normal-met-office\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:58:33","slug":"uks-extreme-weather-is-the-new-normal-met-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/uks-extreme-weather-is-the-new-normal-met-office\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s extreme weather is the new normal &#8211; Met Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the southeast of England, &#8220;we are seeing the emergence of new warmer climates&#8221;, explains Kendon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time areas including Vale of York and Lancashire have similar temperatures now to those seen in Greater London in 1961-1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Think of this warming as moving north and uphill,&#8221; Kendon explains, highlighting that the UK is losing the coldest habitats from the tops of mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The impacts of extreme heat have been seen this summer, as people in many parts of the UK experienced days of above-average temperatures and high humidity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czx5zy82n7no\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2,700 people may have died from heat-related causes<\/a> in England and Wales during the exceptionally hot weather in May and June, according to experts at Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scientists also assessed availability of water in spring and summer, and drought frequency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In spring 2025, most of England and Wales received less than half of the 1991-2020 average rainfall. England had its driest spring for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The total amount of water moving through rivers in England in March to August 2025 was the second lowest since 1961.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Climate change is expected to bring more severe winter rainfall and flooding in the UK, but hotter and drier summers are projected to bring more severe droughts in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lack of rainfall also affects soil and food production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year soils were drier than average for the time of year across central and southern England towards the end of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plant growth can be stunted in dry soil, affecting animals or birds that rely on them for food or the success of a food crop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parched landscapes increase the risk of wildfires, and dry soil heats up more quickly and can amplify heatwaves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c802041g4v8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the southeast of England, &#8220;we are seeing the emergence of new warmer climates&#8221;, explains Kendon. At the same time areas including Vale of York and Lancashire have similar temperatures now to those seen in Greater London in 1961-1990. &#8220;Think of this warming as moving north and uphill,&#8221; Kendon explains, highlighting that the UK is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[1192,1868,446,1444,5387,905],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80049,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80047\/revisions\/80049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}