Bone-dry – One Place News – Breaking News – Local News – News today https://oneplacenews.com "Your Source for Comprehensive and Timely News Coverage" Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:39:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://oneplacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-One-Place-News-100-100-1-32x32.png Bone-dry – One Place News – Breaking News – Local News – News today https://oneplacenews.com 32 32 From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty https://oneplacenews.com/from-bone-dry-to-soaked-to-the-bone-welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-whiplash-aditya-chakrabortty/ https://oneplacenews.com/from-bone-dry-to-soaked-to-the-bone-welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-whiplash-aditya-chakrabortty/#respond Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:39:20 +0000 https://oneplacenews.com/from-bone-dry-to-soaked-to-the-bone-welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-whiplash-aditya-chakrabortty/ This punishingly hot and dry summer will probably be followed by another wet winter. But it’s nothing compared with what Britain will endure in years to come

This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives. Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales is in drought, while key reservoirs are parched. Across this brown and stickily unpleasant land, from Grimsby down to St Ives, hosepipe bans are in force, while music festivals are staged not on green fields but in giant dust bowls.

Just how bad is it? I asked a leading climate scientist.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist

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