UK braces for potential second consecutive drought as central England faces driest summer in 30 years

Farmers face another difficult and expensive harvest season; water restrictions affect millions of customers through hosepipe bans.

For the second summer in succession, England finds itself in the grip of an exceptional dryness — 33 consecutive rainless days in central England, rivers running low, and hosepipe bans touching millions of lives. What was once considered a rare climatic event is beginning to reveal itself as a structural shift: the UK's summers are growing hotter and drier, not as an anomaly but as a trajectory. The immediate suffering of farmers and households is inseparable from the longer question of how a society adapts when the weather it has always known begins to belong to the past.

UK braces for potential second consecutive drought as central England faces driest summer in 30 years

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