Met Office: Summer 2025 on track to be one of UK's hottest on record

Stuart Stone
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Provisional Met Office statistics indicate summer 2025 is on track to join 2023, 2022 and 2018 among UK's ten warmest since records began 140 years ago - and it could yet take the overall top spot

The summer of 2025 is set to be one of the UK's warmest on record, and with weeks still to go it could yet become the hottest overall, according to the Met Office. In its latest temperature forecast...

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