UK weather: hottest June since records began - Met Office

The UK had the hottest June connected record, the Met Office has confirmed.

The mean monthly somesthesia of 15.8C exceeded the erstwhile highest mean June temperature, recorded successful 1940 and 1976, by 0.9C.

Climate alteration made the accidental of surpassing the erstwhile associated grounds astatine slightest doubly arsenic likely, scientists besides said.

Records were breached successful 72 of 97 areas successful the UK from wherever somesthesia information is collected.

As good arsenic the wide UK June record, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each recorded their warmest June since the Met Office started collecting the information successful 1884.

"It's officially the hottest June connected grounds for the UK, for mean somesthesia arsenic good arsenic mean maximum and minimum temperature," said Met Office's Mark McCarthy.

"An summation of 0.9C whitethorn not look a immense amount, but it's truly important due to the fact that it has taken the mean daytime and the nighttime clip somesthesia for the full of the UK," Paul Davies, Met Office Climate Extremes Principal Fellow and Chief Meteorologist, told BBC News.

"That's important successful a warming clime and due to the fact that of the consequential impacts connected society," helium added.

He besides said that portion the UK recorded a higher one-off somesthesia of 40.3C past summer, the quality past period was the sustained vigor some time and night.

Rain was besides successful abbreviated proviso for overmuch of the month, with conscionable 68% of the mean June rainfall.

Wales was peculiarly dry, with conscionable implicit fractional of its mean monthly rainfall.

The Met Office utilized a supercomputer to analyse the temperatures and place the fingerprint of clime alteration connected the weather.

"We recovered that the accidental of observing a June beating the erstwhile associated 1940/1976 grounds of 14.9°C has astatine slightest doubled since the 1940s," explains Mr Davies.

"Alongside earthy variability, the inheritance warming of the Earth's ambiance owed to human-induced clime alteration has driven up the anticipation of reaching record-high temperatures," helium added.

Climate alteration is driving utmost upwind events astir the world.

The satellite has warmed by astir 1.1C since the concern gyration astir 200 years ago.

Greenhouse gases person been pumped into the ambiance by activities specified arsenic burning fuels, which person heated up the Earth's atmosphere.

Last twelvemonth the UK recorded temperatures supra 40C for the archetypal time. Scientists said that would person been "virtually intolerable without clime change".

The adust and lukewarm upwind past period affected wildlife and quality with situation groups warning of food deaths and flowering plants wilting.

Nature is being "pounded by utmost upwind without a accidental to recover", the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.