Great Britain is facing extreme weather conditions this Monday (18). On Friday, the Met Office issued its first red alert for “extreme heat” due to high temperatures.
On Monday, the temperature reached 38.1 degrees at Santon Downham, in Suffolk, eastern England .
On Tuesday, “the day is expected to be even hotter,” according to Met Office CEO Penelope Endersby.
“It’s tomorrow that we’ll really see the biggest chance of recording 40 degrees Celsius and temperatures above that,” Penelope told BBC radio.
“Even above that. 41ºC is not out of the question. We even have some predictions of 43 degrees in our model, but we hope it doesn’t get that hot.”
The CEO said that while extreme temperatures are not expected beyond Tuesday, the Met Office will be monitoring the possibility of a drought in the coming months.
“We expect a big drop in temperature overnight on Wednesday — a drop of 10 or 12 degrees from the previous days,” she pointed out, adding: “Given the two days we spent, our attention is turning to the chance of a period of drought. We are looking at when we will see any raindrops, and we are not seeing any significant precipitation approaching.”
Oxford University professor Myles Allen has warned that another heat wave is inevitable if humanity does not reduce its carbon emissions.
“This is not a new normal because we’re just on a trend of warmer and warmer temperatures,” Allen told CNN on Monday.
The solution, according to the professor, is a radical change in the entire energy sector.
Individual companies are unlikely to change their business models unilaterally due to concerns about losing competitiveness with rivals, he pointed out.
“It has to be industry-wide regulation,” Allen said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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