Have you just done summer all wrong?

As the country swelters in September heat, Joe Shute says rising temperatures across the globe mean we’ll soon need to rethink our summer habits, from holidays to food and how we shop

In this era of climate breakdown, the old certainties can no longer be relied upon (Getty)

In the office of his Woodbridge travel agents, Lee Hunt has been dealing with the fallout of the climate crisis reshaping weather as we know it. As the UK has basked in unprecedented September heat, with a new record set and the hottest day of the year forecast for this weekend, topping 33C, the 46-year-old has been working to extract a couple in their seventies from a hotel flooded and left with no electricity during “biblical downpours” on the Greek island of Skiathos.

Before that, it was figuring out how to move another customer on a scheduled rail trip through Canada to their waiting cruise liner when wildfires scorched part of their route. In July, he helped evacuate other holidaymakers from Rhodes following wildfires that devastated some 135,000 hectares of forest and vegetation across the island.