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UK weather: hottest June since records began - Met Office (www.bbc.co.uk)

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We seem to be breaking new records constantly at the moment.

Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m old enough to remember the summer of ‘76 as I recall it was long and hot, but it was prolonged drought that was the issue. Many reservoirs were almost out and in quite a few towns domestic water supplies were restricted. That meant people in the streets queuing to fill buckets from standpipes. There was a plan to lay a pipe in the outside lane of the M4 to bring water from Wales to London.

So yes, it stands out in people’s memory as extraordinary and sparked a substantial investment in new reservoir capacity.

What people forget is the slow but inexorable rise in temperatures since then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yep! Reminds me of this stat from the met office:

An updated analysis of the annual UK temperature records from the Met Office shows that since 1884 all of the UK’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2002; whereas none of the ten coldest years have occurred since 1963.