Sixty seconds on . . . hot summers

Chance would be a fine thingI know July has been pretty wet in the UK, but a Met Office report suggests years like 2022—when temperatures exceeded 40°C—will become normal. And by 2100 such hot summers will be considered cool.1 And on 27 July the UN secretary general António Guterres declared that “the era of global boiling” had arrived after data showed July was on track to be the hottest month on record.2The heat is onIt certainly is. While rain was the main feature of July in the UK, many parts of the northern hemisphere have been sweltering, with temperatures of 48.8°C recorded in Sicily last week. In a remote part of Xinjiang, China, the mercury hit 52.2°C while Phoenix in Arizona saw highs of 43°C for 24 days in a row.Some like it hot?To a degree, perhaps. In July 2022, the Met Office gave its first red warning for extreme…
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