Summer 2025 is the Warmest on Record for the UK 49
UK weather agency Met Office, in a blog post: 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.
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.
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.
UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:2)
Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:5, Informative)
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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and this is entirely due to the privatisation of water companies :|
No new reservoirs built or infrastructure improved since 'we' decided to make rich cunts richer. we get enough rain in this country that water should never be a problem.
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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.
Looks out window at leafy Berkshire... Seems September really wants to make up for it.
Seriously though, this summer was bad because average temps got pushed up by several heatwaves. Which in itself is bad for a lot of reasons (more extreme weather events, knock on effects for food production, et al.) but the rest of summer was really mild compared to how bad it was a few years ago during the pandemic (21 or 22). Brown grass in July/August has always been a thing around my neck of the woods in the UK thou
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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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Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:3)
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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!
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Farmers are never happy with anything. Not happy with being in the EU. Not happy with a lack of cheap migrant workers or limited access to EU markets.
Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:1, Offtopic)
How come when I say I'm checking climate change with my own observations of stream levels, tree color, bug density at campsites I've been frequenting across the state for decades, a chorus of slashdot climate change champions dismissed my efforts as anecdata, but when individuals report model-friendly stories, suddenly the anecdata critics are silent?
Is there a double standard and cherry-picking happening such that you simply ban data that you don't like?
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I check my shed for elephants daily and never find any. Based on my conclusions elephants do not exist.
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Well, considering some of the excesses of the AGW crowd back when this whole mess first started up, I wouldn't be surprised if there were.
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Is there a double standard
Yes the double standard is you can prove a positive but you can't prove a negative. I'm happy for you that you're not affected by climate change. The reality is it doesn't affect everyone equally.
If you're bored you're more than welcome to come over to my house and paint the leaves on the trees green. The extended drought and heat (as predicted by climate models) has caused us to enter a false autumn in the middle of summer.
Re: UK Readers- How has this impacted you? (Score:2)
It's great. Actual summer, not pissing down every day like it usually does.
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Fabulously sweet, juicy apples!
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Not UK, but the Netherlands is close and has gotten weird. Half our garden flowered at the wrong time this year, we have ancient trees dying from the stress of the season change, and for the second year in the row we've had a "false autumn" where the trees started turning brown and losing leaves in early August long before summer was over.
As for people, heatwave after heatwave has resulted in an inability to get ACs repaired as everyone who knows how to work on one is busy installing them in houses, shops t
Sunburn Hiking the Corpse Way (Score:2)
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.
Re: Simple solution (Score:1)
How about by not having kids?
Its been quite a nice summer... (Score:1, Troll)
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.
Re: Its been quite a nice summer... (Score:1)
Have you heard about margins of error?
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Yes. You're telling me every sensor and thermometer recording the weather errored so badly that it caused a new record?
Statistics (Score:2)
You're telling me every sensor and thermometer recording the weather errored so badly that it caused a new record?
That's not how statistics work. You do not need every sensor to fluctuate upwards only more to fluctuate up than down - also taking into about the magnitude of the fluctuation. Technically it is possible that random sensor fluctuations do contribute to records like this. However, given that the variations in temperature due to weather are much, much larger than the precision of modern temperature sensors - especially when averaged together that reduce this variation further - this is almost certainly not a
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Have you heard about margins of error?
Yes, so have the people whose job it is to make the measurement and who have come to the conclusion that a new record was set.
Not Hottest Ever, Hottest on Record (Score:3)
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You're only a skeptic if you try to find the truth. You're simply obstinate if you just doubt things without using the tools in front of you to seek truth. Here's the hard data: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/r... [metoffice.gov.uk]
Go to any weather station and download the data going as far back as you can. I downloaded data from Oxford to run some simple analysis for January 1853 through August 2025. A simple linear regression showed an unquestionable increase in max temperature in that period with the accelerating increases
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They can't both be right.
This is the only correct thing in your post. I just wonder what brain deficiency caused you to side with an accountant turned blogger instead of ... you know ... the people who have measured the UK weather for decades.
The hidden flaw (Score:3, Insightful)
"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.
Re: The hidden flaw (Score:1)
In the Silaurian, with an error margin in the millions of years on dates, how can you rule out climate change as rapid as the current measurements suggest?
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They always look at such a narrow slice of time.
Well quite frankly I'm more concerned about how the weather moves within a couple of generations either side of mine. Back to 1884 isn't a narrow slice of time. It's more than enough to draw a trend that is worrying for the foreseeable future.
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They always look at such a narrow slice of time.
That's because they are looking at the hottest _recorded_ temperatures and we have only been able to measure and record temperatures with any useful level of accuracy for the past ~400 years.
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It's not the record that is the issue, it's the clear upward trend: https://www.researchgate.net/f... [researchgate.net]
That only goes up to 2020, but it has continued since then. The odd very hot year or two is no big deal, but when decade after decade there is an upward trend, that's a concern.
I like not those numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Is the prime minister not just able to fire the head of the UK weather agency Met Office?
That will go nicely ... (Score:2)
And the.... (Score:2)
Maldives are now underwater.
Stand by my previous post on this. (Score:2, Troll)
I posted this below, and promptly had it downrated and graded as troll. I think this is completely irrational. What I said is correct, it really has been just a nice UK summer. I spent the warmest part of it in the UK and can tell you that is all there has been. Quite unlike the summer of a couple of years ago, when I was also in the UK, and that was genuinely very hot. This summer I have not felt any need to restrict outdoor activity at any time of day, and haven't heard of anyone who did. Unlike a co
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I posted this below, and promptly had it downrated and graded as troll. I think this is completely irrational. What I said is correct, it really has been just a nice UK summer. I spent the warmest part of it in the UK and can tell you that is all there has been. Quite unlike the summer of a couple of years ago, when I was also in the UK, and that was genuinely very hot. This summer I have not felt any need to restrict outdoor activity at any time of day, and haven't heard of anyone who did. Unlike a couple of years ago. Nights warm enough to be uncomfortable are a usual feature of very warm UK summers - I have not heard anyone mentioning that. Though they have in the past about other summers.
Explaining why you think it is impossible for the mean temperature to be higher WITHOUT it causing those effects might help. At the moment it just looks like you don't understand enough maths to see how a long period of slightly warmer weather than usual can produce a mean that is higher that that caused by a very short period of exceptionally hot weather and humid nights.
For the rest, just because a lot of people have been copy-pasting the same opinion on social media, doesn't give it any more factual weig
Wrong data! (Score:2)
Next summer (2026) will the the second warmest.
Next next (2027) summer will be the warmest.
So last one (2025) is the third warmest.
Or maybe will be the fourth?
Just the facts (Score:3)
You can downvote all you want, label as trolling all you want. But the facts are that there is plenty of evidence that the UK Met Office is doing a terrible and unprofessional job of maintaining a network of up-to-standard weather stations. And, from the testimony of people living and staying in the UK this summer, this was not an especially hot summer.
You can't stop people knowing this, saying it. You can affect how its rated on /., and thus somewhat affect how many people read it here. But you can't affect the facts, and you can't stop general publication of them. All you can do is destroy the credibility of the institutions you are trying to defend by banning crticism of them. Not that there is a whole lot left to destroy!
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