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Key Events
- The UK has been hit by soaring temperatures as mainland Europe suffers wildfires due to extreme heat.
- Climate change making heat waves more frequent, and extreme with experts warning UK must adapt.
Climate change is making heatwaves more extreme, frequent and likely, and experts warn the UK needs to adapt homes, hospitals, schools and transport networks to a future of more searing heat.
Much of Europe is also baking in record-breaking heat, which is fuelling wildfires in a number of countries.
The Met Office say today will be “mainly dry with some spells of sunshine, areas of high cloud throughout the day. Isolated thundery showers. A hot day, exceptionally so across Borders and Lothian, though starting to cool off towards evening. Winds strengthening in places. Maximum temperature 33 °C.”
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