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The 2021 Britain and Ireland heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather in July 2021 that led to record-breaking temperatures in the UK and Ireland.. On 19 July, the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning for parts of the UK.
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.
An extreme heat wave affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. [14] Rapid attribution analysis found this was a 1000-year weather event, made 150 times more likely by climate change.
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‘Greater than normal chance’ of heatwaves this summer ‘consistent with our warming climate’, say Met Office
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 ...
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2021 British Isles heatwave; 2021 Eurasia winter heat wave; 2022 United Kingdom heatwaves ... This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 04:07 (UTC).