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"This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional
data, and the Met Office said the season’s mean temperature was made 130 times
more likely by the climate crisis.
Record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves have scorched much of Europe. In
England, temperatures peaked at 38.1C (100.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on 13
August, and June had already been confirmed as the country’s hottest since
records began in 1884. Scientists have said these heatwaves are only possible
because of the climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels.
The Met Office said an average mean UK temperature of 16.5C made this summer
provisionally the warmest on record as well as the warmest season in a series
going back to 1884. England, Wales and Northern Ireland broke their respective
mean temperature records for summer while Scotland recorded its joint sixth
hottest summer.
This is the second year in a row that temperature records have been broken,
with 2025 and 2026 both the warmest UK summers since records began.
The infamous summer of 1976 is now the seventh warmest on record in terms of
mean temperature.
Katie White, the minister for climate transition, said it was a “brutal
reminder that we’re not waiting for climate change to arrive in Britain, we’re
living in the middle of it. With kids too hot to sleep, families worrying about
older relatives, farmers watching fields dry out, and firefighters and our
armed forces battling wildfires, we’ve all woken up to a reality none of us
wants for the people and places we love.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
