Now, the British summer of 2025 will go
down in the record books as the hottest
yet with five days left to go until the
end of the season. The Met Office is
confident it will easily beat 2018. To
explain why, here's Martin. Yeah. Well,
it's unusual to be able to make a
prediction like this when you've still
got nearly a week of the summer still to
run. But forecasters say they can do so
because current summer average
temperatures, which combine both the day
and nighttime, are currently way above
normal, up at 16° C. Now, that's nearly
half a degree above 2018, which is the
current hottest. Now, half a degree
might not sound like much, but as an
average over 3 months, it's huge and
well ahead of that famous hot summer of
1976, which is actually going to be
relegated down into sixth place. To not
break the record, temperatures for the
next 5 days would need to be 4° below
average. And whilst forecasters show
some rain could be on its way,
temperatures are extremely unlikely to
drop that low. Now, this might not come
as much of a surprise. High pressure has
made much of this summer settled, sunny,
and hot. In fact, we've had four
separate heat waves. It's also been very
dry with nearly a third less rain than
usual. And that followed on from the
driest spring in England, at least for
more than a century. Now, that's not
only increased the likelihood of
wildfires like the one we've seen on the
North Yorkshire moors today, but drier
ground holds less moisture, which can't
evaporate, and that evaporation would
normally help cool things down. Plus, as
an island nation, our weather is hugely
affected by sea temperatures, and
there's been a significant marine heat
wave. The areas in red here show sea
surface temperatures up to 3° above
average stopping the coast from cooling
down. And climate campaigners say for
the future, we're going to need to adapt
to these extremes. We just need to look
around us um of our experience this
summer to see, you know, the sustained
hot days, the dry days, the lack of
rainfall for a really long time, the
dust in the air. To see that this is
this is a pattern now that we're dealing
with as a result of the climate
emergency.
>> Now, our final statistic, which appears
to back that up, is that nine of the
last 10 summers have all seen
temperatures above long-term averages.
Okay, Martin, many thanks.