Why Is It So F@#$%&! Hot In The UK?

Boris Johnson famously hid in a fridge to avoid journalists questions and with my phone showing today's temperature as 27C, if there was a fridge nearby i would be diving into it also.
The most asked question is 'Why is it so F@#$%&! hot?' and official MET Office answer is a high pressure system called the Azores High which usually sits in the North Atlantic and annoys Southern Europe, has grown larger and pushed farther north, bringing Southern European high temperatures to Northern Europe and the UK.
Now if you like temperatures 27C and above then you are going to love this week because the MET Office have issued a rare Heat Warning and have said there is a strong chance of the all-time UK record of 38.7C set in 2019 could be beaten this week.
The next question is: 'Are Our Summers getting hotter? and again the MET answer is Yes, Britain has got 0.9C warmer since the 19th Century and the 10 hottest years in the UK have all happened since 2002. The unofficial answer is OF COURSE IT IS!! HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK OR WHAT!!
The third question is then: 'Why are they getting hotter?' and i say take a rest MET Office, go put a damp flannel of the back of your neck or something and i will get this one.
OK, since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century we began throwing pollutants into the atmosphere on a large scale and these pollutants stop the heat from the Sun escaping back into Space so the heat remains and warms the planet and acts upon all sorts of weather anomalies, such as heat waves, droughts, rain etc.
Now the Global warming doesn't create these weather conditions, we would still have hurricanes, floods and heat waves even without the heavilly polluted atmosphere, but what it does do is take what is there and make it worse so storms are stronger, rains are heavier (so more floods) and as we are finding out, heatwaves are hotter.
The Final question is generally: 'Gee Lucy, what can we do about it? and the scary answer is nothing, we're f@#$%&d, the amount of pollutants in already in the atmosphere means we are committed to a 2.3C rise over the next century even if we never flung another atom of Carbon into the sky and if you think 1C is bad at the moment..oh boy, but people don't like hearing that so the proper answer is that our politicians hold events like the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow to come together to agree on action to try and mitigate the worst effects of a warming planet so hurrah for them.
So stay cool and head to Leeds, Glasgow or Manchester which are on average the coolest place in the UK during Summer.