The UK is on course for its hottest summer ever – with only average temperatures needed for the rest of August to beat the record, the Met Office says.
The mean temperature for the summer so far, from June 1 to yesterday, stands at 16.48C – which is 1.88C above the 1991 to 2020 average, provisional data shows.
To equal the 16.12C seen only last year – the UK’s warmest summer on record – the rest of August would need to be just 0.21C below the long-term average, and any warmer than this would establish a new record for the country, meteorologists
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