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Having further assessed the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018 the figures are so close that we are declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with 2006, 2003 and 1976.

The margin between the mean temperatures at the top of the league tables (records dating back to 1910) is so small, at around 0.03 of a degree, that it is impossible to separate the years. Usually we will only quote statistics to the nearest 0.1C as differences smaller than this could result from

Saturday 3 October 2020 is now the wettest day in the UK in records dating back to 1891.

Provisional Met Office statistics show that England enjoyed its sunniest March since records began in 1910, with many individual counties also topping their sunshine duration records. It was also the UK’s third sunniest March on record, and Wales’ second.   It was also a very dry month, with only

average, making this the sixth warmest autumn on record in the series from 1884, although autumn 2022 (ranked 3rd) and 2021 (ranked equal-fourth) were both slightly warmer. The climate district of south-west England and South Wales had its warmest autumn on record (marginally ahead of 2011 and 2006

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Temperatures will quickly rise today - it'll be very hot in south east England with a record-breaking 39°C possible.

Heatwave thresholds have been met across large parts of the country - 34.3°C was reached in Writtle, Essex on Wednesday and as hot air continues to push up from the Continent temperatures will rise further today. Heatwaves are extreme weather events, but research shows that with climate change

Outlook for global climate in the coming years

in the climate system, including longer term shifts in both the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), are also contributing. Near record temperatures are predicted during the coming five years, consistent with the 2020 Met Office annual global temperature

Temperatures yesterday reached 38.1°C in southern England, setting a new record for the highest July temperature recorded in the UK.

The new record was set in Cambridge at 15:37 on Thursday, beating the previous record of 36.7°C set in Heathrow in 2015 and coming close to the all-time UK temperature record of 38.5°C, recorded in Faversham in August 2003. Exceptionally high temperatures have gripped parts of Scotland and much