Britain's summer has been the hottest on record, according to provisional data from the national weather service LONDON -- Britain's sweltering summer of successive heatwaves was the hottest on record, the national weather service said Tuesday. The season, marked by extreme heat, little rainfall, destructive wildfires, and water restrictions, snapped the record set only a year earlier, the Met Office said, citing provisional data recorded since 1884. The mean average temperature of 16.5 Celsius (61.7 Fahrenheit) surpassed the 16.1 C (61 F) from 2025.
Last year's record beat the 15.7 C (60.2 F) mark set in 2018. The Met calculated that human-caused climate change had made such a hot summer 130 times more likely. Without human greenhouse gas emissions, a summer that hot would occur once in a millennium, but is now expected once every nine years.
Health Security Agency estimated that 2,877 deaths in England were associated with May and June heatwaves. The peak temperature of 38 C (100.4 F) in Norfolk on June 26 set a record for the month. The mercury climbed to 38.1 C (100.6 F) in London on Aug. 13 in the hottest day of the year.
England, Wales and Northern Ireland all set records for mean summer temperatures, though Scotland, which was cooler and less dry, tied its sixth warmest summer. All of Wales and most of England remain in drought conditions. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events
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