After the UK’s hottest ever summer on record, when much of the country has experienced a fraction of its normal levels of rain, many regions continue to be in drought. This water crisis has led to parched reservoirs and widespread hosepipe bans. Yet early autumn heat has been making way for some serious downpours.
While the country desperately needs rain to break the drought, we are also facing a future where warmer, wetter winters are putting millions more people, homes and infrastructure in the way of potentially damaging floods.
