As Britain's restless autumn skies briefly settle, a returning warmth — temperatures nearing 26°C in the south-east — offers the feeling of a borrowed summer. Yet the same high pressure that stills the winds and lifts the mercury also withholds the rain that parched landscapes desperately need. In a year already rewriting the record books for warm days, this welcome interlude arrives as a reminder that comfort and consequence are rarely separate.
UK braces for late summer warmth as temperatures peak at 26C next week
Climate & Environment