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Heatwave: 2022

20 images Created 27 Jul 2023

We’re being told that 2022 will in the coming decades, be viewed as a ‘cool year’, when 40 degree summers are the norm. Can you imagine what stresses that will put on society: On infrastructure, on the elderly, on the natural landscape and native wildlife? It won’t be comfortable for us mature folk fast-approaching the years when heat gains a more significant threat to weaker lives. Working as a sixty year-old ain’t easy either, I admit! but when there’s an atmospheric relevance to my working day, whether with flood or heat, it draws, lures, me out and into the deluge - or the furnace.

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  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, copies of the Evening Standard at Victoria station reports on the hottest day, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-39-19-07-2022.jpg
  • Park users sit in parched grass landscape in Greenwich Park as the UK's heatwave and drought continues into August with little rain having fallen in London and south-east England, on 4th August 2022, in London, England.
    london_drought-05-04-08-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, a boy dips his head in the Trafalgar Square fountain water, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-28-19-07-2022.jpg
  • During the August heatwave, a woman wearing a head shade, crosses the road outside the Bank of England in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mille), on 10th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-55-10-08-2022.jpg
  • Visitors to the capital experience the August heatwave in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mille), on 11th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-07-11-08-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, a sunbather enjoys the sun in Ruskin Park, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-03-19-07-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, a cat lays in the shade beneath a parked car, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-08-19-07-2022.jpg
  • Two women sit in sunshine during their lunch-hour at South Quay in Canary Wharf, London Docklands, on 9th August 2022, in London, England.
    gotheborg_ship-45-09-08-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, a tattooed sunbather with an England tattoo enjoys the cooling waters of fountains in Trafalgar Square, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-15-19-07-2022.jpg
  • A courier driver and a motorcyclist have a motoring altercation at a mini roundabout junction in Mayfair, on 14th July 2022, in London, England.
    DPD_fight-08-14-07-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of parched grass and an artificial cricket crease in Ruskin Park, a south London public space as the UK's heatwave and drought continues into August with little rain having fallen in London and south-east England, on 5th August 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_drought-13-05-08-2022.jpg
  • A woman takes a copy of an Evening Standard newspaper whose headline quotes Prime Ministerial contender Liz Truss during Conservative party leadership race, at Liverpool Street station in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mille), on 10th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-46-10-08-2022.jpg
  • A man wearing a red tie stands alongside a freshly-painted red and white bollard in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mille), on 10th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-61-10-08-2022.jpg
  • Office workers take their lunch hour beneath the architecture of the Leadenhall Building during the August heatwave in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 11th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-02-11-08-2022.jpg
  • Visitors to the capital experience the August heatwave in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mille), on 11th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-11-11-08-2022.jpg
  • during the August heatwave in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 11th August 2022, in London, England.
    city_people-60-11-08-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, commuters wait for delayed and cancelled train services from Victoria Station, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-40-19-07-2022.jpg
  • On the day that the UK experienced its highest recorded temperature of 40.3 degrees centigrade (104.5 Fahrenheit), an historical heatwave in Conningsby, Lincolnshire - rail travel was disrupted and major grassland fires broke out, the public queue for water in the Trafalgar Square drinking water fountain, on 19th July 2022, in London, England. The Met Office has in recent days issued  notices to the public - a severe warning of risk to life.
    UK_heatwave-35-19-07-2022.jpg
  • Visitors gather at the foot of General James Wolfe's statue in Greenwich Park, on 16th June 2022, in London, England. Greenwich Park is a former hunting park and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London.
    greenwich_park-04-16-06-2022.jpg
  • A detail of dead leaves lying in parched grass in Greenwich Park as the UK's heatwave and drought continues into August with little rain having fallen in London and south-east England, on 4th August 2022, in London, England.
    london_drought-36-04-08-2022.jpg
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