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UK summer 2024: How was it for you?
In 2023, summer was wet but warm, especially in June which ended up being the warmest on record.
The year before, frequent heatwaves in summer 2022 meant it was the joint warmest on record for England with numerous temperature records being broken by considerable margins.
It was also the year when the UK’s highest recorded temperature of 40.3C was set.
According to the Met Office, the number of very hot days when the temperature exceeds 30C have more than trebled in the most recent decade compared to the 1961-1990 average.
Summer heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and hotter.
Maximum temperatures recorded every year since the 1960s have also been getting higher.
In the 1960s one temperature above 34C was observed. In the 1990s there were two occurrences above 34C. Since 2010 there have been eight years where the highest temperature in the year exceeded that mark.
Our summers are therefore getting warmer so on occasions like this year when we have not had a particularly high temperature or heatwave, do we feel short-changed?
Climatologists agree that UK summers will become hotter and drier on average even though there will be more intense downpours.
Ms Roberts says, “We will perceive hot, dry weather as less extreme and come to expect more.”
As for the weather going into autumn, it actually looks like it will be quite warm for some of us.
On Sunday, the first day of meteorological autumn, temperatures could reach 28C in south-east England.
Elsewhere temperatures should be higher than average, even as we go into the week ahead.
It will be a little mixed though with some showers or longer spells of rain at times.
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