The world has had 2 extra heatwave day per decade since 1950. This means 14 extra days were added by 2020!
In 2020, the met office in the UK produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections. In July 2022 the forecast was shockingly almost identical for large parts of the country.
The Met Office imagined, what July 23, 2050 might feel like for this far-northern, populous island nation and its Irish neighbors. This was based on climate change projections and what is known so far about global warming’s impact — not in strictly causing weather extremes, but in boosting their frequency and severity.
But in July 2023 the Met Office no longer had to pretend. The severe heatwave was here — 28 years earlier than the projection map.
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