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Record-breaking: Hottest June on record for UK

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29 June 2023

Record-breaking
Hottest June on record for UK

June 2023 temperature anomaly averaging out well-above normal (depicted by deep red).June 2023 temperature anomaly averaging out well-above normal (depicted by deep red).

The UK is on track to have its hottest June since records began in 1884.

June 2023 has been exceedingly hot, with temperatures peaking at 32.2°C in Coningsby, Lincolnshire on the 25th of the month, matching the same temperature recorded in Chertsey, Surrey on the 10th, as the joint hottest day of the year so far.

As a whole, the month has seen well-above average temperatures, widely reaching the mid-twenties for at least half of the month, owing to persistent high pressure.

June normally sees temperatures in the low-twenties, so temperatures have reached ten degrees above normal at times.

Although June is closing on a slightly cooler and unsettled note, temperatures are still hovering around-average, with this not substantial enough to scupper the overall monthly statistics.

This June will top the previous record set in 1940, as well as June 1976, currently the first and second warmest on record respectively. Four of the ten warmest Junes in the UK have also occurred in the last 20 years including 2018, 2003, 2006 and 2017.

While March and April's temperatures averaged out below-normal this year, all other months in 2023 so far have been warmer than normal.

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