2025 set a new high for UK warmth

LAST year was the UK's warmest since records began, the Met Office has confirmed.

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The mean average temperature for the country across 2025 was 10.09°C, beating the previous record of 10.03°C set just three years earlier in 2022.

Four of the UK's top five warmest years have now occurred in the current decade, with all of the top 10 taking place in the past two decades.