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In July 2018, many areas of the UK saw temperatures exceed 30 degrees for nine days in a row and fifteen days overall, and other areas still affected by a heat wave. The hot weather continued into early August before temperatures returned closer to the average during the second half of the month. [84] [85] 2018 North American heat wave. The ...
Highest 24-hour total (UK national average) 31.7 mm (1.25 in) UK (national average) [9] 3 October 2020 Highest 48-hour total 405 mm (15.9 in) Thirlmere, Cumbria 4 to 5 December 2015 Highest 72-hour total 456.4 mm (17.97 in) Seathwaite, Cumbria 17 to 19 November 2009 Highest 96-hour total 495 mm (19.5 in) Seathwaite, Cumbria
September 2023 was the most anomalously warm month, averaging 1.75 °C (3.15 °F) above the preindustrial average for September. [22] The Copernicus Programme (begun 1940) had recorded 13 August 2016, as the hottest global temperature, but by July 2024, that date had been downgraded to the fourth hottest.
The hot, dry weather is set to break from Wednesday, with a thunderstorm warning in place for the eastern half of Wales and much of England. UK’s hottest day of the year forecast with predicted ...
As the latest international climate talks, Cop27, kick off in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the UN’s weather and climate body released its annual state of the global climate report with yet another ...
It rains on fewer days every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May, averaging 58.4 mm (2.30 in). [3] The climate of south-west England displays a seasonal temperature variation, although it is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom with milder winters.
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The hottest UK temperature in January is provisionally recorded by the Met Office, with a peak of 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) at Kinlochewe, Scottish Highlands, more than a degree higher than the previous record in 2003. [123] The UK government announces plans to ban disposable vapes in an attempt to tackle the growing number of children taking up vaping.