UK has warmest spring on record

The UK has recorded its warmest outpouring connected grounds - and its driest for 50 years, the Met Office has said.

Provisional figures showed outpouring temperatures surpassed the semipermanent mean by 1.4C - with a mean somesthesia of 9.5C (49.1F). That bushed the erstwhile warmest outpouring recorded successful 2024.

Temperature records were breached successful each 4 nations successful the UK - with 1.64C supra the semipermanent mean successful Northern Ireland, 1.56C supra mean successful Scotland, 1.39C successful Wales and 1.35C successful England.

In records dating backmost to 1884, the Met Office said 8 of the 10 warmest springs had occurred since 2000 - and the 3 warmest had been since 2017, successful a motion of the changing climate.

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Last week, the Met Office revealed the UK had recorded its sunniest outpouring connected record - with 630 hours of sunshine from 1 March to 27 May, beating 2020's grounds by 4 hours.

In an update connected Monday, the upwind forecaster said determination had been a full of 653.3 hours of sunshine successful March, April and May - 43% supra average, and sunnier than each springs since records began successful 1910.

"To enactment this into context, Spring 2025 is present the 4th sunniest play wide for the UK, with lone 3 summers sunnier since 1910," it added.

Conditions were besides incredibly adust with an mean of 128.2mm of rainfall falling successful the UK crossed March, April and May - the lowest outpouring full since 1974, which saw 123.2mm.

Met Office idiosyncratic Emily Carlisle said "the UK's clime continues to change".

"This outpouring shows immoderate of the changes we're seeing successful our upwind patterns, with much utmost conditions, including prolonged dry, sunny weather, becoming much frequent," she said.

"The information intelligibly shows that caller decades person been warmer, sunnier, and often drier than the 20th period average, though earthy saltation volition proceed to play a relation successful the UK's weather."

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It comes aft the Met Office warned the UK is acceptable for a hotter than accustomed summer - with an accrued hazard of heatwaves implicit the adjacent 3 months.