The British summer was dry and hot. Now, the national weather service Met Office says that the three summer months were the warmest England has experienced since measurements began in 1884.

On July 28, the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK was 40.3 degrees in Coningsby in Lincolnshire in eastern England.

But that was just the culmination of the hot and dry summer, where the average temperature in England reached 17.1 degrees – together with the summer months of 2018, the highest figure the country has seen in the last 138 years.

For the rest of the islands, it was ”only” the fourth warmest summer.

“Four of the five warmest summers in England have occurred since 2003, and the effects of human-driven climate change are being felt in English summers,” says Mark McCarthy at the British National Climate Information Centre.

The heat has also led to rare periods of drought.

Source:TT-AP