As the end of May draws closer, the Met Office is warning that Spring 2025 is shaping up to be a contender for the record books, particularly when it comes to temperature, rainfall and sunshine.

The Met Office is reporting that 2023 was provisionally the second warmest year on record for the UK, with Wales and Northern Ireland having their respective warmest years in a series from 1884.

The Met Office has confirmed that the UK has had its hottest June since records began. 

As the UK swelters in heatwaves driven by the El Nino weather pattern, which has pushed up global temperatures in recent weeks, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today launched a new inquiry on heat resilience and sustainable cooling.

The Climate Change Committee is warning that the UK is still “strikingly unprepared” to tackle the impacts of climate change which will intensify over coming decades, leaving the UK vulnerable without better resilience planning and preparation.

The Met Ofice has confirmed that human induced climate change has driven 2022 as the UK’s hottest year on record, with an average temperature of over 10°C recorded for the first time.

Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis published today in the journal Science.

Provisional statistics released by the Met Office show that England has had its joint hottest summer in a series which runs from 1884.

The record-breaking heatwave experienced across Europe in 2022 will be considered an “average” summer by 2035, even if countries meet their current climate commitments so far agreed in negotiations under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to the latest data from the Met Office Hadley Centre, commissioned by the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG).

The government has today published the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) – which warns that UK faces myriad risks which could cost many billions of pounds a year to tackle within a relatively short timescale by 2050.