June in the UK will be the hottest since records begun almost 140 years ago, according to the Met Office.
Temperatures reached 32.2C and a heat wave was declared across large swathes of the country, with a two week period where temperatures rose almost everyday above 25C. Cooler weather is expected for this week but that won’t be enough to prevent the current record, set in 1940, being broken.
Climate change is a big contributor to the hotter, drier, record-breaking summer weather. It’s likely to continue into the summer with an increased chance of more heat waves in July. Last summer, temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time in the UK, as rivers dried out across Europe and wildfires raged.
