2025 set to have been warmest on record in UK

Last year is set to have been the warmest and sunniest year on record for the UK.

Provisional Met Office figures show a mean temperature of 10.09°C in what it said was “an increasingly clear demonstration of the impacts of climate change”.

Head of climate attribution at the Met Office, Dr Mark McCarthy, said: “We’re increasingly seeing UK temperatures break new ground in our changing climate, as demonstrated by a new highest UK mean temperature record just three years after the last record.”

Recent figures showed that a record 6.3% of Great Britain’s power was supplied by solar generation, a 30% rise on the previous year, according to Solar Energy UK.

Chris Hewett, Chief Executive of Solar Energy UK, said: “The solar sector has long passed being a bit-player in the UK energy market. It is now supplying six times more hydropower, more than half of the output from nuclear and a quarter of the power generated from natural gas. With capacity set to rise to almost 60GW over the coming decade, we are guaranteed to see records tumble each year, putting the nation on course for cheaper, cleaner power.”