© Mark Humpage/SWNSThe sky near Leicester after midnight. The 'noctilucent' cloud is reflecting light from the Sun over the horizon.
It is August 2084 and in the olive groves of Bedfordshire, the temperature has just topped 41C for the fourth day running.
Luton's silk industry may be thriving, but on the radio, there are reports of wildfires raging across the Yorkshire moors. Hospitals are overflowing with elderly victims of the heat wave, some stricken with tropical diseases.
It may sound far-fetched but it is one possible future as laid out yesterday by the Met Office, where Britain is still recognisable - but only just.
Across the Home Counties, the rolling lawns and herbaceous borders have been edged aside by palms and pistachio trees.
Comment: Here is an article covering the discovery of the "new" cloud formations.
The clouds with no name: Harbingers of a mighty storm