Britain is going to see a lot more ‘perfect’ summer days - and it’s thanks to global warming

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It’s not the sort of weather our island is famous for – but over the next few decades, Britain is going to see a lot more ‘perfect’ summer days.

Most global warming science focuses on threats such as sea level rise – but a new study looked at how warming would affect dry, mild days.

And there’s good news (for Britain, at least), when it comes to the sort of mild, dry days when you could plan a picnic or a summer wedding.

On average, the world will see 10 fewer days of mild, mostly dry weather per year – but the UK’s going to actually see more, according to researchers at Princeton.

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Study lead author Karin van der Wiel, a meteorology researcher at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, ‘It’s the type of weather where you can go outside and do something fun. It’s not too cold. It’s not too hot. It’s not too humid.’

Rio de Janeiro, Miami and much of Africa are big losers, while England and northern Europe are big winners.

‘The changes are more dramatic in parts of the developing world, where you have high concentrations of populations,’ said NOAA climate scientist and co-author Sarah Kapnick

Kapnick said she wanted to look at nice weather because her friends kept asking her what day to choose for good wedding weather.

The team used a middle ground scenario for global warming – not worst-case runaway carbon pollution and not dramatic cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases – and ran different computer simulations to see what would happen.