https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjzpglw4yo

Rising temperatures in the UK will become “the new normal”, a leading government climate adviser has warned, as she called for more to be done to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
It comes as the Met Office revealed 2025 was on course to be the UK’s hottest year since records began, with climate change continuing to drive higher temperatures.
With just over a week still to go, the average UK air temperature across 2025 is on track to end up at about 10.05C, which would edge out the current record of 10.03C from 2022.
“This is our future, encapsulated in data,” Professor Rachel Kyte told the BBC.
“Now the question is ‘how are we going to prepare ourselves and build our resilience to this?'”
A lack of rainfall and persistent warmth left the country vulnerable to droughts and wildfires through the spring and summer.
While temperatures vary naturally from year to year, scientists could not be clearer that human-caused climate change is driving the UK’s rapidly warming trend.
“The pollution [carbon dioxide] we’ve put in for the last 20-30 years is now what is driving this warmth, and so not curbing emissions well enough means we’re going to continue to see these kinds of impacts,” Prof Kyte, the UK’s special representative for climate, said.
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