‘EXTREME HEAT’ WARNING ISSUED FOR PARTS OF ENGLAND ON THURSDAY AS TEMPERATURES COULD REACH 38C – LATEST NEWS

Met Office says this warning will likely cause ‘adverse’ health effects with travel and power generation also possibly affected The Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, has written a useful explainer about the… You can read it in full here: There’s only one solution in the end to the drought now declared across most of England and that’s rain, says Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading.

The Guardian reports that met Office says this warning will likely cause ‘adverse’ health effects with travel and power generation also possibly affected The Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, has written a useful explainer about the…

The report adds: You can read it in full here: There’s only one solution in the end to the drought now declared across most of England and that’s rain, says Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading.

An important consequence of drought is that very dry soils can become less able to absorb rainfall when it does arrive.

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