The UK has had its warmest spring on report – and its driest for 50 years, the Met Workplace has stated.
Provisional figures confirmed spring temperatures surpassed the long-term common by 1.4C – with a imply temperature of 9.5C (49.1F). That beat the earlier warmest spring recorded in 2024.
Temperature information have been damaged in all 4 nations within the UK – with 1.64C above the long-term common in Northern Eire, 1.56C above common in Scotland, 1.39C in Wales and 1.35C in England.
In information courting again to 1884, the Met Workplace stated eight of the ten warmest springs had occurred since 2000 – and the three warmest had been since 2017, in an indication of the altering local weather.
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Final week, the Met Workplace revealed the UK had recorded its sunniest spring on record – with 630 hours of sunshine from 1 March to 27 Might, beating 2020’s report by 4 hours.
In an replace on Monday, the climate forecaster stated there had been a complete of 653.3 hours of sunshine in March, April and Might – 43% above common, and sunnier than all springs since information started in 1910.
“To place this into context, Spring 2025 is now the fourth sunniest season general for the UK, with solely three summers sunnier since 1910,” it added.
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Circumstances have been additionally extremely dry with a mean of 128.2mm of rain falling within the UK throughout March, April and Might – the bottom spring whole since 1974, which noticed 123.2mm.
Met Workplace scientist Emily Carlisle stated “the UK’s local weather continues to vary”.
“This spring exhibits a few of the adjustments we’re seeing in our climate patterns, with extra excessive circumstances, together with extended dry, sunny climate, turning into extra frequent,” she stated.
“The info clearly exhibits that latest many years have been hotter, sunnier, and sometimes drier than the twentieth century common, though pure variation will proceed to play a job within the UK’s climate.”
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It comes after the Met Workplace warned the UK is ready for a hotter than usual summer – with an elevated danger of heatwaves over the following three months.
