Summer 2025 is the Warmest on Record for the UK
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/191239/summer-2025-is-the-warmest-on-record-for-the-uk
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> Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. Analysis by Met Office climate scientists has also shown that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a 'natural' climate with no human caused greenhouse gas emissions.
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> The UK's mean temperature from 1 June to 31 August stands at 16.10C, which is 1.51C above the long-term meteorological average. This surpasses the previous record of 15.76C, set in 2018, and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top five warmest summers in a series dating back to 1884.
[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/summer-2025-is-the-warmest-on-record-for-the-uk
Simple solution (Score:2)
Eliminate the humans. Nature tends to win these sorts of arguments, and if that is the solution, it will find equilibrium that way. Sucks for us, but might be inevitable.
Its been quite a nice summer... (Score:1)
Its been quite a nice summer. Not particularly hot, but consistently dry and pleasantly warm. The beaches and parks have been full of people taking advantage of it.
Is it the hottest summer ever? Very doubtful. If so, only by the tiniest amount and on some very odd selection of parameters and weather stations. Unlike some other hot English summers the nights have been pleasantly cool. Its certainly not as hot as the summer a couple of years back where there were a few weeks of genuinely exceptional hea
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> Is it the hottest summer ever? Very doubtful.
Every weather reporting station in the UK is wrong?
> Read Paul Homewood and the Daily Sceptic, look at the pictures of the crowds, consider the total lack of any stories of heat prostration, and figure out who you believe.
Dear lord you're dumb.
The hidden flaw (Score:2)
"and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top five warmest summers in a series dating back to 1884."
Restated, the warmest summer since the end of the Little Ice Age. They always look at such a narrow slice of time.
Granted that's all they have good records for. Records here start about the same time.
I like not those numbers (Score:3)
Is the prime minister not just able to fire the head of the UK weather agency Met Office?
UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:1)
For any slashdotters across the pond - how has this impacted you? How does this compare to an average summer?
Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:3)
Most of England has low levels of water reserves, hosepipe bans etc. August was very dry - lots of dry, brown grass on lawns etc
The trees are messed up, especially fruit trees. They are fruiting and dropping their leaves early, which will be bad for wildlife in autumn.
Then thereâ(TM)s the general sense of dread, of course, and knowing itâ(TM)s going to get worse.
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It's got to the point where homes need air conditioning. There were usually a few sticky nights and that was it, opening some windows was enough. Not anymore it's just oppressive heat all the time.
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I don't know yet, MY summer goes from June 21st to September 21st.
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meteorological summer. [1]https://www.accuweather.com/en... [accuweather.com]
[1] https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/meteorological-summer-vs-astronomical-summer-explained/1780019
Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:2)
There have been wildfires on the Yorkshire moors for the past two weeks. It's not unheard of but it seems to be happening more frequently and for longer. My garden is certainly showing the effects of the hot and dry weather we've had these past months.
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You really should be asking the farmers. But from the phrasing of your question you seem doubtful of the report.
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> You really should be asking the farmers.
I wouldn't bother. Farmers are never happy with the weather.
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>> You really should be asking the farmers.
> I wouldn't bother. Farmers are never happy with the weather.
Farmer answering: If the weather didn't want us complaining about it it would stop with the too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too windy, to stagnant, too cloudy, too sunny nonsense and make with the perfect already!