{"id":390667,"date":"2025-09-02T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390667\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:27:12","slug":"summer-2025-officially-hottest-ever-in-wales-says-met-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390667\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2025 officially hottest ever in Wales says Met Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an average temperature, according to provisional statistics, of 16.06\u00b0C in Wales from June, July and August, the figures have beaten a record which stood for three decades.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1_WML_160825_Porthcawl_Warm_Weather_06JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A packed beach with lots of revellers young and old on a particularly sunny and warm day\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>People enjoy the hot weather at Coney Beach in Porthcawl in August(Image: Mark Lewis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wales has seen its hottest summer on record according to the Met Office. With an average temperature, according to provisional statistics, of 16.06\u00b0C in Wales from June, July and August, the figures have beaten a record which stood for three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wales\u2019 previous warmest summer was in 1995 when temperatures averaged 16.04\u00b0C. This year, the hottest day of the year came on July 12 when 33.1\u00b0C was recorded in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/cardiff\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Last week also saw the hottest August bank holiday Monday temperature ever recorded. That came in Hawarden in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/flintshire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Flintshire<\/a>, where temperatures reached 29.6\u00b0C. For the biggest stories in Wales first, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=aa0abd38-0db5-4492-99f3-e73baecff682&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">While the figures have not reached the all-time high which was also set in Hawarden in July, 2022, it has been the warmest summer as a whole with temperatures passing the heatwave threshold, which is three consecutive days above 25\u00b0C, on four separate occasions in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This summer has not only been Wales\u2019 warmest but also its driest and sunniest since 2022. That followed the country\u2019s driest spring in over 50 years. According to the Met Office, Wales had 79% of its average summer rainfall this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It has led to some upsetting scenes of drought with stories accompanying those scenes including <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/startling-pictures-show-how-welsh-32280979\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">dried up canals<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/popular-welsh-event-doubt-just-32369906\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">water-based events threatened.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The coming days are expected to bring some much-needed relief for farmers. After some unsettled <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/wales-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">weather<\/a> across the country recently there are plenty of heavy showers forecast for the upcoming week as well as a marked drop in temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for the weather agency said: &#8220;Wednesday does indeed look like an unsettled day for Wales with an area of low pressure bringing wet and windy conditions, especially through the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;There are no warnings issued currently but this may change so please do keep an eye on the forecast and our news releases as we get closer to the event.&#8221; You can read more on the weather in the coming days <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/met-office-weather-map-shows-32390875\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With an average temperature, according to provisional statistics, of 16.06\u00b0C in Wales from June, July and August, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,12502,1146,1150,16709,4884,16708,1142,16365,15062,1149,1147,1148,16,15,1764,16366],"class_list":{"0":"post-390667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff","10":"tag-carmarthenshire","11":"tag-ceredigion","12":"tag-conwy","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-gwynedd","15":"tag-met-office","16":"tag-monmouthshire","17":"tag-newport","18":"tag-pembrokeshire","19":"tag-powys","20":"tag-swansea","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales","24":"tag-wales-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115132107913627393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}