The increasing likelihood of temperatures above 30 to 40 °C in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has experienced a strong heat wave in 2019 that set a new temperature record for the country of 38.7 °C. In this study the authors show that under climate change, local temperatures are increasingly likely to exceed 35 °C and 40 °C in the next decades and, hence, summers like the...

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Main Authors: Nikolaos Christidis, Mark McCarthy, Peter A. Stott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16834-0