The Met Office has confirmed 2025 as the warmest and sunniest on record in the United Kingdom.
Provisional calculations show that with an average temperature of 10.09C, this exceeds the previous record of 10.03C set in 2022.
It means that 2025 joins 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years and it's only the second year where the mean annual temperature has exceeded 10C.
The last twelve months were also the sunniest on record with 1648.5 hours recorded, 61.4 hours more than the previous record set in 2003.
