We can only adapt so much to extreme heat.ByJacob Stern
JULY 19, 2022, 8:29 PM ETSHARE
In September 2020, the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office published ahypothetical weather forecastfor a mid-July day in the year 2050. Forty degrees Celsius in London. (That’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit.) Thirty-eight in Hull (100 degrees F). Thirty-nine in Birmingham (102 degrees F). These were preposterous numbers, never before seen in U.K. weather forecasts, much less felt in reality—until last week. On Friday, the Met Office published anactual forecastfor Tuesday that, as several observersnoted, looked scarily similar to its 2050 projections. And today, as predicted, the U.K. smashed its previous heat record,registeringa provisional reading of 40.3 degrees C, or 104.5 degrees F, in a small village near the eastern coast. From speculative fiction to nonfiction in less than two years.
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