Downing Street today called the week’s second Cobra meeting on the heatwave, as Britain prepares to endure temperatures of up to 38C (100F) from next Monday and the Government plans to enact contingency measures.
Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse will chair the meeting of the Cobra (Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) civil contingencies committee, which comes just three days after the first crisis meeting was held on Monday.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman said the move was a ‘progression’ of the ‘significant work ‘ that had already been done to prepare, and there were contingency measures which have been enacted or are ready to be enacted.
It comes as river levels are at 30 per cent of normal levels, farmers are using a third more water and Britons have been told to take shorter showers after the lowest rainfall in more than a quarter of a century in parts of the UK.
Farmers have warned of a ‘significant challenge’ posed by the extremely dry weather as they try to keep crops fully…
