https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c1kz18d3wjro

The United Kingdom has “almost certainly” had its hottest summer on record, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office.

The mean temperature across the country – which includes overnight lows as well as daytime highs – currently stands at 16.13C (61.03F) with less than a week of the season left to run.

This is well ahead of 2018, the previous warmest summer, which had a mean temperature of 15.76C (60.37F).

Temperatures during the rest of August would need to be four degrees below normal to prevent the record being broken – and this does not seem likely.

This is in line with evidence that summers are getting hotter and drier because of climate change.

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