The UK's summers are getting hotter - but how prepared are we?
Based on current trends parts of the UK are set to see 40C summers regularly within a couple of decades.
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"We expect increasing temperatures and the breaking of temperature records due to climate change."
— Lizzie Kendon , Academic
"Climate change [is] loading the atmosphere with extra heat and making extreme temperatures far more intense than they would have been in the past."
— Akshay Deoras , Academic
"When temperatures rise this sharply, and for this long, the effects ripple across everything we have built - our homes, our offices, our railways, our roads, the very ground beneath them."
— Xueyu Geng , Academic
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Based on current trends parts of the UK are set to see 40C summers regularly within a couple of decades.
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