UK faces another week without rain as heatwave persists and wildfire risk soars

Millions of households face water restrictions; wildfire risks threaten communities across Greater Manchester, Conwy, and Derbyshire.

For the third consecutive week, Britain finds itself held in the grip of a heat and drought that has begun to feel less like a weather event and more like a reckoning. Across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, rainfall has all but vanished — some communities have not seen a measurable drop in nearly a month — while temperature records that stood since 1976 have been quietly erased one by one. Eight million households now face water restrictions, and the parched land itself has become a hazard, as wildfires take hold across the Midlands, the North, and Wales. The forecast offers no reprieve:

UK faces another week without rain as heatwave persists and wildfire risk soars

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