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From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty

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From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty
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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 comeThis 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, wh

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