UK set for hotter than usual summer and heatwaves, Met Office predicts

The UK appears to beryllium connected the verge of a hotter than accustomed summertime – with the Met Office informing there's an accrued hazard of heatwaves successful the coming months.

The upwind service's three-month outlook predicts it is 2.3 times much apt than mean that it volition beryllium blistery successful the UK betwixt 1 June and 31 August.

The mean temperatures during those months scope from 10-17C, with the southeast of England experiencing the higher averages of 16-17C.

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The predictions travel aft temperatures soared to 8C (46F) supra the mean for this clip of twelvemonth connected Saturday, bringing the last time of meteorological outpouring to a lukewarm close.

This has been the UK's sunniest outpouring connected record, with immoderate 630 hours of sunshine logged betwixt 1 March and 27 May.

It has besides been the driest outpouring successful much than a century.

The Met Office said: "While the existent three-month outlook shows an accrued accidental of a blistery summer, the somesthesia signals for this summertime are akin to those for caller years and accordant with our warming climate.

"The accrued accidental of hotter than mean temperatures is not a warrant of prolonged blistery upwind oregon heatwaves, but it does mean that heatwave conditions could beryllium reached astatine times.

"However, it's important to carnivore successful caput that an accrued accidental of blistery conditions could besides bespeak a premix of blistery and chill days, lukewarm nights, oregon little utmost levels of warmth alternatively than continual heatwave conditions specifically."

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The Met Office's long-range forecast does not connection upwind predictions for circumstantial days, but alternatively gives an denotation of imaginable temperatures, rainfall and upwind velocity implicit the play arsenic a whole.

The summers of 2018 and 2021 to 2023 were besides predicted to beryllium hot. Data shows the past clip a summertime was predicted to beryllium chill was successful 2015.