‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

The brief

The UK’s climatic extremes are becoming increasingly normal, a report has found, with last year the hottest on record and further “unprecedented changes” likely to break the record again soon. Data stretching back to 1884 shows the UK has never experienced a year as hot as 2025, according to the annual State of the UK Climate report, with temperatures pushed to dizzying heights by carbon pollution clogging the atmosphere. The country experienced its warmest spring and summer on record last year, while England was hit by its driest spring in a century. The report comes as the UK faces the third deadly heatwave to have scorched Europe over the last…