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• Deep dive: After a remarkable summer, meteorological Autumn has arrived

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• 2025 is already the UK’s sunniest year on record

  This year has already been the sunniest year on record for the UK, according to provisional Met Office statistics.

   made 2025 notably sunnier than average.  “So far this year, only the months of February and October have recorded below-average sunshine hours.”  This graph shows most areas receiving over 35% more sunshine than average this spring.  What's the annual sunshine trend? The latest UK State of the Climate

• Spring 2020: the sunniest on record in the UK

  Non-Executive Directors News & media Media centre Campaigns Contact the Press Office Weather & climate news Corporate news Official news blog Contact us Send us your feedback Ways to contact us How to find our offices Information for visitors Spring 2020: the sunniest on record in the UK Author

• Dull and mild February brings wet winter to a close

  over recent decades.   Climate change is also associated with a trend towards wetter winters in the UK. Winters are expected to feature more days with significant rainfall, particularly in western regions.  Attribution studies across the UK and Europe have linked several record-breaking rainfall

• Warmest February on record for England and Wales

  England and Wales had their respective warmest Februarys on record according to provisional Met Office statistics in what was a mild and wet month for many.

  .  Declining ground frosts in a changing climate  With a warmer than average season, a declining number of ground frosts was again evident for the UK, with significantly fewer ground frosts than average, though it doesn’t trouble any records. If you want to learn more about the reduction in frosts and why

• Rainfall on UK’s wettest day on record could have more than filled Loch Ness

  Non-Executive Directors News & media Media centre Campaigns Contact the Press Office Weather & climate news Corporate news Official news blog Contact us Send us your feedback Ways to contact us How to find our offices Information for visitors Rainfall on UK’s wettest day on record could have more

• 2019: A year in review

  2019 has been a year of extremes: record-breaking heat and rain, along with notable spells of cold and windy weather have all been prominent.

  As we approach year-end, we’ve highlighted the most notable climate features of the year, including two all-time temperature records:  Warmest winter day on record: 21.2 °C recorded at Kew Garden on 26 February  Hottest day on record: 38.7 °C recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on 25

• 2025: likely another record year for UK annual temperature

  As we approach year end, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.

  will appear in the top five warmest years in a series from 1884 – an indication of just how fast our climate is changing. All top-ten warmest years will have occurred in the last two decades. If the record is confirmed, this will be only the second year in observational records where the UK’s annual

• UK May and spring temperature record provisionally broken for second day in a row

  35.1°C has been recorded at Kew Gardens making it the second consecutive day the May and spring UK temperature record has provisionally been broken.

  and climate change A climate attribution study published last summer by Met Office scientists found that the chances of surpassing the May temperature record have been increasing as our climate changes as a consequence of human greenhouse gas emissions. The study found that breaking the 32.8°C May record

• Deep Dive: What could UK summers feel like in the future?

  of possible conditions shifts as the climate warms, making hotter summers more commonplace and creating the potential for events more extreme than those experienced so far. The change has already been notable. Summer 2025 set a UK mean-temperature record of around 16.1°C, approximately 0.4°C above