By Sam Tabahriti<\/p>\n
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) – Britain’s four most recent years are all among its five warmest on record, according to the country’s \u200cmeteorological office, which said on Wednesday rising temperatures were making once-exceptional weather \u200cconditions increasingly ordinary.<\/p>\n
The Met Office’s annual climate report found 2025 was Britain’s warmest year since records \u200bbegan in 1884, while the latest decade was 1.33 degrees Celsius (34 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than 1961-1990.<\/p>\n
The report said the average hottest day of the year had warmed by more than 4.5 C in parts of southeast England compared with 1961-1990, while the \u200cnumber of days above 30 \u2060C had more than quadrupled in London.<\/p>\n
“What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal,” said Mike \u2060Kendon, the Met Office’s lead author of the State of the UK Climate report.<\/p>\n
The findings come after a succession of heatwaves across Britain and Europe this year that have \u200bshattered \u200btemperature records, fuelled wildfires and led to \u200bthousands of so-called excess deaths.<\/p>\n
UK RECORDS \u200cEXPECTED TO BE BROKEN AGAIN<\/p>\n
Britain’s Met Office said annual temperatures had risen by around 0.25 C per decade since the 1980s, making 2025 the sixth time this century that Britain’s annual temperature record had been broken.<\/p>\n
The agency said it would expect records to be broken again within years, and Kendon said the evidence showed \u200cthat the climate of the last century \u200bwas no more.<\/p>\n
“We are right now living in \u200ba time of historic and unprecedented \u200bchange,” he said.<\/p>\n
During Britain’s May and June heatwaves, around 2,700 \u200cpeople were estimated to have died from \u200bheat-related causes, with \u200bglobal warming making the heat severe enough to contribute to about 42% of those deaths.<\/p>\n
Unlike rainfall, which can be influenced by a range of factors, \u200bscientists can attribute most \u200cextreme heat events at least in part to climate change, Royal Meteorological \u200bSociety Chief Executive Liz Bentley told reporters in a separate briefing.<\/p>\n
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