{"id":400169,"date":"2025-09-05T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:16:16","slug":"northern-ireland-weather-met-office-confirms-summer-2025-the-second-warmest-on-record-and-repeat-is-now-far-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400169\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland weather: Met Office confirms summer 2025\u00a0the second warmest on record\u2026\u00a0and repeat is now far more likely"},"content":{"rendered":"

A daily mean temperature of 15.35C was set, but 1995 is still hottest summer here\n<\/p>\n

The announcement comes as 2025 has been declared the hottest summer on record for both the UK and Ireland overall.<\/p>\n

The warmest summer in Northern Ireland was in 1995, when a mean temperature of 15.4C was recorded.<\/p>\n

Temperatures were 0.05C below that this year, with an average daily of 15.35C.<\/p>\n

In July 1995, a record-high of 31.3C was set, the same temperature that was recorded in Castlederg in July 2021.<\/p>\n

A top temperature of 30C was recorded in Magilligan<\/a>, Co Londonderry, on July 12 this year.<\/p>\n

\"Izzy<\/p>\n

Izzy the dog enjoys the sunny weather at Helen\u2019s Bay on the 25th August 2025 (Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n

Four heatwaves hit the UK this summer.<\/p>\n

The Met Office defines a heatwave as temperatures of 25C or above for at least three consecutive days.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland recorded its third heatwave of the summer last month, just four weeks after the previous one.<\/p>\n

August 25 saw Northern Ireland record its warmest August Bank Holiday on record<\/a>, with Magilligan weather station reaching 24.5C, surpassing the previous record of 23.8C set at Banagher, Co Londonderry, in August 1983.<\/p>\n

In the Republic, Met \u00c9ireann said August was the fourth-warmest on record, with July ninth and June fourth, while the season\u2019s average temperature of 16.19C set a new summer record.<\/p>\n

The Met Office said temperatures are expected to remain in the high teens as we move into autumn, with this weekend seeing highs of around 19C across Northern Ireland alongside a mixture of sunshine and showers.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People enjoy the bank holiday weather in Newcastle, Co. Down, last month. Picture: Jonathan Porter\/PressEye<\/p>\n

Saturday will bring some warm sunshine, but it will be cloudier across parts of the west, with showers possible.<\/p>\n

Things will become more unsettled on Sunday with stronger winds, rain and possible thunderstorms.<\/p>\n

And as we move into the new week, expect sunshine and blustery showers, with a further risk of thunder.<\/p>\n

The Met Office added that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a \u201cnatural\u201d climate with no human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s mean temperature from June 1 to August 31 stands at 16.10C, which is 1.51C above the long-term meteorological average.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/p>\n

Sea Park, Holywood, last month during the warm weather<\/p>\n

This surpasses the previous record of 15.76C set in 2018, and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top five warmest.<\/p>\n

Met Office scientist Dr Emily Carlisle said: \u201cProvisional Met Office statistics show that summer 2025 is officially the warmest on record with a mean temperature of 16.10C.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People enjoy the warm weather at Sea Park, Holywood, last month<\/p>\n

Belfast History Explained: The Story of the River Farset<\/p>\n

\u201cThe persistent warmth this year has been driven by a combination of factors including the domination of high-pressure systems, unusually warm seas around the UK and the dry spring soils.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese conditions have created an environment where heat builds quickly and lingers, with both maximum and minimum temperatures considerably above average.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daily mean temperature of 15.35C was set, but 1995 is still hottest summer here The announcement comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8819,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-400169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-amy-cochrane","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115152118657142601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400169","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=400169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}