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This page documents notable droughts and heat waves worldwide in 2020.. Throughout the year, various countries' hottest ever recorded temperature records were broken. The highest temperature during the year was on August 16, when a weather station in Death Valley in the U.S. state of California recorded an air temperature of 129.6 °F (54.2 °C), the hottest temperature recorded globally in ...
The heat wave was unprecedented; [1] the hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was observed on 19 July 2022, exceeding 40 °C (104 °F) for the first time in British history and surpassing a previous record set in 2019. [2] The heat wave caused substantial disruptions to transportation and sparked wildfires in some parts of the country.
2021 Eurasia winter heat wave; 2022 United Kingdom heatwaves This page was last ... This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 04:07 (UTC).
Temperatures on July 18 and 19 topped 38C, which had only happened before in the UK on August 10 2003 and July 25 2019, according to Met Office data which uses observations stretching back to the ...
In a hotter climate regime, expect the unprecedented. On July 19, an exceptional heat wave smashed the UK's all-time heat record. Temperatures provisionally reached 40.2 degrees Celsius (104.4 ...
Temperatures have now risen above 40°C at a number of UK sites, however fresher conditions are now arriving across the far west of the country 👇#heatwave2022 #heatwave pic.twitter.com ...
The UK has committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. [14] The target for 2030 is a 68% reduction compared with 1990 levels. [15] The UK has been successful in keeping its economic growth alongside taking climate change action. Since 1990, the UK'a greenhouse gas emissions have reduced by 44% while the economy has grown by around 75% up until 2019 ...
‘Greater than normal chance’ of heatwaves this summer ‘consistent with our warming climate’, say Met Office