Helena Horton

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303 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Today in Focus · Drill Andy drill? Burnham’s North Sea dilemma · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

But yeah, definitely it'll be a cold week when he

you.

Today in Focus · Heatwave hell: are soaring temperatures the new normal? – The Latest · 25 May 2026 podcast

Every year, we're experiencing record-breaking heat, pretty much.

Our country just isn't prepared for this level of heat.

There's also a phenomenon happening called El Niño.

It turbocharges heat waves.

It's predicted to be a super El Niño.

If the El Niño hits, we're likely to have very hot summer next year.

Well, it was record overnight.

So it's very, very rare that we get anything up to 20 degrees.

It was just nearly 20 degrees in London last night.

Actually, we've never had that in May before.

So if you did find it hard to sleep, these are temperatures we'd normally have in August.

And obviously, in May, we have quite long evenings.

So it takes longer for the

has to cool down it's just very uncomfortable and yes but over the weekend we've had temperatures hitting over 30 degrees across the country across england and it's officially a heat wave in parts of the southeast of england and the south in general so that's when you have more than three days over 27 or 28 degrees depending on where you are and what's the picture across europe is europe experiencing the same type of extreme heat as we are

Yes, Northern Europe here.

So France is also baking at the moment.

We're stuck in a pressure system which is sucking in hot air from Africa.

So we have this kind of heat dome over us at the moment.

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