People walk on a path between the sun scorched grass, turned yellow-brown by a lack of rain, in Greenwich Park, near the Old Royal Naval College in south-east London on August 7, 2026, backdropped by the skyscrapers of the Canary Wharf financial district in the distance. In the southern part of England, July was the driest month ever recorded, dating back to 1836, with just 1.9 mm of rainfall, or three percent of the average figure, the Met Office said. (Photo by Toby Shepheard / AFP via Getty Images)