It’s great to look forward to anything when you’re sitting in your house watching the rain pelt your window.
However, the UK Met Office is here to deflate your hopes if what you’re hoping for is some nice shorts and ice cream summer weather.
The national weather office does not anticipate any significant temperature increases until the season is done, despite some cautious optimism.
In actuality, the rain is likely to keep pelting your window for several days or perhaps weeks.
The unsettled regime appears most likely to continue to dominate, at least for the first half of the month, according to a statement from the Met Office: “Looking ahead to the rest of August there are currently no strong signals for any warmer or more settled weather.”
Overall, later in August would likely have the best potential of bringing about any brief, drier, and slightly warmer interludes.
The likelihood of heatwaves in the UK is lower than in previous recent Augusts, therefore it appears unlikely that we will experience any extended or extreme heat.
Tomorrow will see the issuance of two yellow weather alerts: one for the south coast of England and the other for a portion of the UK between London and Manchester that will see thunderstorms and “unseasonably windy” conditions.
On Wednesday, there is a possibility of consequences from both rains and severe winds, according to Met Office Chief Meteorologist Steve Ramsdale.
There is a chance of some surface water flooding in particular in the eastern section of northern England due to persistent rain.
The nation is set to see colder weather, but the meteorological agency had projected a lengthy ten-day rainstorm in London between July 29 and August 7.
Those who are in need of more heat may want to be careful what they wish for, though, as summertime temperatures of more than 40C, which were first observed in the UK during the disastrous July heatwave last year, may become the norm in a few decades.
According to UK climate projections, even in the case of a medium emissions scenario, the year 2022, which is currently the warmest year on record, could become the norm by the middle of the century and relatively cool by the end.
Remembering that climate change is still a problem does not imply that the UK has been spared the extreme heat that was experienced there last summer and in southern Europe in recent weeks, scientists are asking the public to do.
According to Professor John Marsham of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, “pollution from fossil fuels has warmed our planet, and this increases extreme rainfall and floods as well as the likelihood and intensity of heatwaves.”
“The extreme weather has already resulted in crop losses, skyrocketing food prices, and fatalities.” If we don’t quickly move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and clean power, this will only become worse and eventually wipe out entire ecosystems.
If we don’t take action soon, future news headlines will likely focus more on food costs and water shortages than on holidays.