What will you do to adapt?

Simon Marsh  |  Features  |  earth watch
Date posted:  1 Sep 2022
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What will you do to adapt?

Baitings Reservoir in West Yorkshire reveals submerged bridge in the drought | photo:u/Frogloggers on Reddit

What did you do to stay cool this summer?

By the time you read this, I hope we’ll be heading into somewhat cooler weather, but at the time of writing, we’ve just experienced the hottest temperatures ever in the UK.

My wife and I had the joy and the misfortune to celebrate our son’s graduation on the day that the UK’s temperature record broke the 40°C barrier, peaking at just over that in Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Where we were in Birmingham, my son got one degree, but we all got 37 degrees in the shade.

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