LONDON: Britain’s Met Office said June was the hottest month in the country’s 140 years history. The national weather service said the average mean temperature of 16 degrees Celsius in June was the highest in a series going back almost 140 years, beating a previous record of 14.9°C set in 1940 and 1976.
“The numbers are suggesting that we are going in the wrong direction when it comes to the intensity of the heat,” meteorologist Clare Nasir said.
The Met Office also said a marine heatwave affecting the North Atlantic had played an underlying role in raising land temperatures in Britain and said rainfall during June had been 68pc of its average level. The Met Office said a study by its scientists had found the chance of June being hotter than 14.9°C had at least doubled since around 1940.
