Recently, The Guardian wrote that we should all stop pretending heatwaves are fun – in reality, the author argued, they’re uncomfortable, sweaty, dangerous reminders of increasing global warming.

I agree on all points, except the main argument of heatwaves being fun. I haven’t been excited to hear about a heatwave for years, and nobody I know has either.

Friends still talk in horror of the sweltering 40C heat of 2022: a day which took place in a four-day heatwave that caused 1,000 heat-related deaths.

Since then, some loved ones told me, heatwave warnings have reminded them not of sunny beaches and 99 cones but uncomfortable, relentless overheating.

I don’t think most of us have been really excited to read headlines touting “soaring temps” for almost a decade. Personally, I stopped enjoying them in about 2019; others I asked put it somewhere in the mid-to-late 2010s.

We have good reason to react this way. Recent research

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