UK’s 20th-Century Climate Is ‘Now Gone’, Stark Report Warns

Britain’s familiar weather patterns have not vanished overnight, but the conditions once used to define normality are becoming unreliable. The latest evidence shows a country moving beyond the climate that shaped its infrastructure and expectations.

The warning is not based on one heatwave. Long observational records reveal simultaneous changes in averages, extremes, rainfall, seas and landscapes, with effects already visible across the country.