The UK has experienced its coolest summer since 2015, new Met Office statistics show.
While the south of England experienced a mostly typical summer, much of the UK faced cooler conditions in 2024.The hottest day of the summer was 12 August, when temperatures in Cambridge reached a sweltering 34.8C.But over the course of the summer months, temperatures were 0.22C below average.This is in stark contrast to recent years, when Britain experienced a series of warm summers, with the last time Britain saw cooler-than-average temperatures coming in 2015.
“August was the wettest month of the summer, with some places in Scotland experiencing double their average summer rainfall during the month and Storm Lilian bringing strong winds and heavy rain at the end.”The average temperature for the UK this summer was 14.37C, which is 0.22C cooler than the long-term meteorological average.England experienced the warmest summer, just 0.07C below average, while Scotland and Northern Ireland were 0.40C and 0.45C below average.
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