Amber Alert: heatwave hits the UK
About this episode
Mark and Pete discuss the implications of the recent UK heatwave and its connection to climate change and public policy.
UK heatwave warnings, record-breaking June temperatures and the great climate argument arrive together in this episode of Mark and Pete, as Britain swelters, schools struggle, railway lines complain, and almost everybody discovers that their house was designed to retain heat with the grim efficiency of a Victorian oven. The UK has now recorded its hottest June day on record, with a provisional temperature of 36.1°C measured in Gosport, Hampshire. That has beaten the previous June record of 35.6°C, set in Camden Square in 1957 and matched in Southampton during the famous summer of 1976. Much of England and Wales has faced extreme-heat warnings, with red and amber alerts covering areas where temperatures, humidity and unusually warm nights create risks to health, transport and public services. Britain wanted Mediterranean weather. It neglected to order the shutters, tiled floors and sensible working hours. Mark and Pete examine what the Met Office heat warning actually means, whether this is merely another hot spell or evidence of a changing pattern, and whether concern about extreme weather has become hopelessly tangled with Net Zero politics, green taxation, international…
People in this episode
Hosts: Mark, Pete
Topics covered
- UK heatwave
- climate change
- weather vs climate
- public health
- transport issues
- extreme weather warnings
Keywords
- heatwave
- UK
- climate change
- extreme weather
- public health
- transport
- June temperatures
Mentioned in this episode
Places: UK, Gosport, Hampshire, Camden Square, Southampton
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