What will the british summer be like this year

Warm air from Mediterranean predicted to push temperatures in parts of Britain to 28C next week. Hyde Park, London. Temperatures are expected to reach 27C 81F in the south-east on Monday. The summer solstice marks the point when the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky. This is the longest day of the year, after this the days get shorter until the winter solstice which occurs around 22 December.

In the US, the summer fire season is lengthening and deepening as temperatures rise, winter snow melts earlier, and soils and vegetation dry out. The mental health effects of more extreme weather and relentless summers remain underreported. David Eisenman , a professor of community health sciences in California, has studied the likely impact of prolonged fire seasons on people who are be trapped indoors by smoke.

The joys that summer once brought become more difficult to access. Reassurance could come in the form of upgraded infrastructure. This will have to be stronger and cooler. As well as higher flood defences, hospitals and care homes will need more air conditioning; cities will need more parks, rivers and shade; roads will have to be designed not to melt and crack in the heat. Betts said buildings and public spaces should not be designed on the basis of past weather data because that is no longer a guide.

We urgently need to catch up on adaptation, we are lagging well behind the changes in climate that are now occurring. As climate crisis deepens, attitudes to season shift. Read more. Pack layers! Rain-wise, it varies. The North West tends to get quite a significant amount of rain, but the North East has much less. Southern England is the warmest area of the UK, with less rain and higher temperatures than all over regions.

The urban landscape of London means that temperatures of often the hottest in the country. West of England and Wales have warm summers and mild winters due to its close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean — sounds great, right?