Wet winter, hot summer? What 'climate whiplash' means for the UK

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Climate policies and planning is often based on average scenarios, but the UK's weather is becoming ever more extreme

After a dry 2025 with the UK's warmest summer on record, winter 2026 delivered something very different: rain for 50 days in a row in parts of Devon and Cornwall, one of the rainiest seasons on record...

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