UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running

LONDON: Britain experienced its hottest summer on record for the second year in a row, the UK's national weather agency announced Tuesday (Sep 1), after weeks of successive heatwaves and widespread drought conditions."Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK's warmest summer on record with the season's mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change," the Met Office said.The UK measured an average temperature of 16°C between June and August, breaking the previous record of 16.1°C set in 2025.Scientists warn that climate change is making extreme weather events more intense and resulting in heat records tumbling with increasing frequency. Some 33 countries, spanning from western Europe to the Sahel and central America, recorded their hottest July since recor