Scorched Britain: the July heatwave in pictures
With July 2022 being one of the driest on record, we look at how the country has been affected
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People sheltering under a tree on Wimbledon Common covered in parched grass on a hot and humid day as the hot weather is forecast to return
Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock
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A man sits in a dry Greenwich Park in London
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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The parched lawns of King’s College at the University of Cambridge
Photograph: Geoff Robinson
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An aerial view of a play park and recreational field in Romsey, Hampshire
Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
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People avoid cracks appearing along paths on Primrose Hill.
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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An aerial view of Burley Golf Club in the New Forest. The south of England has experienced the driest July since records began in 1836 with only 5.4mm of rain across the region.
Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
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Cyclists make their way through a parched and arid Richmond Park
Photograph: Rick Findler/Story Picture Agency
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A pedestrian walks a dog at Scammonden reservoir in West Yorkshire
Photograph: Jon Super/AP
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The dried-out bed of Thruscross reservoir in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Low water levels have exposed a normally submerged bridge at Baitings reservoir in West Yorkshire
Photograph: Adam Vaughan/LNP
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A groundskeeper at Boughton and Eastwell cricket club in Ashford, Kent, prepares the wickets
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
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The bed of Woodhead reservoir is exposed in Glossop, Derbyshire
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Firefighters attempt to contain a wildfire that encroached on nearby homes in the Shiregreen area of Sheffield
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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A person walks a dry bank of a tributary to the Dowry reservoir in Oldham, Greater Manchester
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
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The Roundmoor Ditch stream normally used by cattle to drink from and cool off in, dries up on Dorney Common. Temperatures in Buckinghamshire were over 40C
Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
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Tourists pose for a selfie in Parliament Square, central London. Temperatures reached 40C for the first time on record in the UK
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
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Low water levels at Roadford Lake, Devon
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
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The Royal Berkshire fire service attended a large fire in a field of wheat in Eton Wick, Windsor
Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
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Burnt woodland in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire
Photograph: Cameron Smith/Getty Images
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Traffic crosses a bridge at Woodhead reservoir in Derbyshire, as water levels dipped dangerously low
Photograph: Jon Super/AP
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A British Airways flight coming into land above a dry Heathrow airport
Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
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Shrubs planted in plastic covers following the M4 smart motorway construction in Taplow are mostly dead in the heat
Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
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The dried-up waterway between Pen-Y-Garreg reservoir and Garreg-ddu reservoir near Rhayader in Powys, Wales
Photograph: Graham M Lawrence/LNP
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Knightswood Park boating pond dries up in Glasgow
Photograph: Gerard Ferry/Alamy Live News
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An aerial view of charred fields after a crop fire in Dinnington, Rotherham
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
