LONDON: The UK’s heat wave is so bad that some think it deserves a name, hurricane-style. That’s to help people understand that this weather isn’t nice, but extreme -- and potentially dangerous, according to Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Temperatures in some areas are set to exceed the UK’s daytime record of 38.4 degrees centigrade (101.1 Fahrenheit) early next week. The Meteorological Office has issued an extreme heat warning for Monday and Tuesday in parts of the country amid an unusually long streak of days with thermometers hovering around 30C. There’s an 80% chance temperatures will break records on those days, the Met said.
