For the fourth time this summer, Britain finds itself in the grip of dangerous heat — a pattern that speaks not to anomaly but to a deepening shift in the country's climate story. By Wednesday, temperatures across southern and eastern England will reach 35 degrees Celsius, prompting formal health warnings for those most vulnerable to sustained warmth. Set against a July already recorded as the second hottest in British history and a landscape parched by near-record drought, this heatwave arrives not as an isolated event but as the latest chapter in a longer reckoning with a changing atmosphere
Fourth UK heatwave peaks Wednesday as temperatures hit 35C
Vulnerable populations face increased health risks from sustained high temperatures; drought conditions affecting millions under hosepipe bans.