2025 on track to be UK's warmest year on record

The UK could beryllium acceptable to person had its warmest twelvemonth connected record, according to forecasters.

The Met Office says 2025 is connected way to go 1 of the UK's warmest years, perchance surpassing 2022.

The mean yearly somesthesia is tracking astatine 10.05C - up of the erstwhile grounds of 10.03C acceptable successful 2022.

A forecasted acold spell implicit Christmas means the last fig is not yet confirmed.

If it is confirmed, 2025 volition beryllium lone the 2nd twelvemonth successful observational records wherever the UK's yearly mean somesthesia has topped 10C.

Four of the past 5 years volition past look successful the apical 5 warmest years since records began successful 1884. All of the apical 10 warmest years volition person occurred successful the past 2 decades.

A caller grounds has been antecedently acceptable for the UK yearly mean somesthesia 5 times this period - successful 2002, 2003, 2006, 2014 and 2022.

'Extraordinary times'

Mike Kendon, a elder idiosyncratic astatine the Met Office, said: "At this signifier it looks much apt than not that 2025 volition beryllium confirmed arsenic the warmest twelvemonth connected grounds for the UK."

He added: "In presumption of our climate, we are surviving successful bonzer times. The changes we are seeing are unprecedented successful observational records backmost to the 19th century."

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Professor of clime subject Friederike Otto described the findings arsenic "devastating and utterly unsurprising", adding: "10C mightiness not dependable precise warm, but it is an mean and means overmuch higher temperatures successful the summer, precocious temperatures that would person ne'er been imaginable are present communal and that is not bully news."

Bob Ward, from the Grantham Research Institute connected Climate Change and the Environment, said: "This is further grounds of the impacts of clime alteration successful the UK, and the urgent request for america to halt warming by starring the satellite successful reaching nett zero emissions of greenhouse gases arsenic soon arsenic possible."