Original title: Summer 2025 confirmed as UK’s hottest on record
The Met Office has confirmed that summer 2025 is officially the hottest on record for the United Kingdom. Provisional statistics show that the mean temperature across the country - which includes overnight lows as well as daytime highs - was 16.10C (60.98F). This is 1.51C (2.72F) above the long-term average and well ahead of 2018, the previous warmest summer, which had a mean temperature of 15.76C (60.37F). It is in line with evidence that summers are getting hotter and drier because of climate change. Met Office climate scientists have found that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would have been in a “natural” climate, with no human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. 2025 has pushed the famous summer of 1976 out of the UK top-five, meaning the five hottest summers have all occurred since 2000.