Climate change drives Britain toward hottest summer on record

Climate change is increasingly reshaping Britain's weather, with provisional data indicating that this summer is set to be the warmest on record for the country.
According to provisional statistics from Britain's Met Office, the summer of 2025 will "almost certainly" become the warmest summer on record for the country since records began in 1884.

The new figures would move 2018 off the top spot and push 1976 out of the top five warmest summers, the office said in a report released earlier this week.

From June 1 to Aug. 25, Britain's mean temperature stood at 16.13 degrees Celsius, about 1.54 degrees above the long-term meteorological average and well above the current record of 15.76 degrees set in 2018.