Why is UK heat so bad?
Why is UK heat so bad? Big cities like London are affected by something called an urban heat island (UHI) effect. This happens because “the sun's rays are absorbed by hard surfaces rather than by vegetation such as trees, plants and grass. Radiation from our hard surfaces is released into the air as heat,” says the London Assembly.
Is 2023 predicted to be a hot summer?
Analyses with other temperature data — from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, among others — have also shown more than a 50 percent chance that 2023 will be the warmest on record. At the end of June, the nonprofit Berkeley Earth forecast an 81 percent chance of a record 2023.
Is 2023 the hottest year ever?
An extraordinary run of global temperature records means that 2023 is now “virtually certain” to be the warmest year ever logged, according to the EU's climate change service.
Is summer 2023 going to be hot UK?
“The characteristic variability of the UK's climate has once again been illustrated by this summer: the season's temperature figures are influenced by how significantly hot June was, but the result is that summer 2023 will go down as a warm and wet one for the UK, with plenty of rainfall in the second half of the ...
Will 2023 have a very hot summer?
The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.