{"id":390788,"date":"2026-01-26T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:52:23","slug":"uk-has-never-seen-a-year-like-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390788\/","title":{"rendered":"UK has never seen a year like 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom, a region known for its gray skies and damp weather, is seeing a real shift in its weather conditions. In 2025, our English neighbors didn\u2019t need to vacation in the south of France to find the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Two records were in fact broken in 2025: it was the warmest and the sunniest year in the United Kingdom since weather records began (1884), ahead of 2022 and 2023, the Met Office, the country\u2019s national weather service, has just announced. The UK\u2019s average temperature for 2025 was 10.09\u00b0C. It is the second year in which the annual average temperatures have crossed the symbolic 10\u00b0C threshold. \u2018This increasingly clearly illustrates the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futura-sciences.com\/en\/camille-parmesan-climate-refugee-scientist-reveals-what-climate-change-really-does-to-life_23287\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> on temperatures in the United Kingdom. A rapid attribution study carried out by the Met Office supports this finding: it shows that human-caused climate change increased by 260 the likelihood that the United Kingdom would reach the 2025 annual temperature record,\u2019 the Met Office report says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/metofficegovuk_xxlarge-1024x614.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Temperature trends in the United Kingdom from 1884 to 2025. \u00a9 Crown, Met Office<\/p>\n<p>More and more sunshine each year in the United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Alongside unusually high temperatures, the sun shone more than ever in 2025: it was the sunniest year since sunshine records began in 1910, with an average of 1,648.5 hours of sunshine across the country, or 61.4 hours more than the previous record set in 2003. As a result, the year was also marked by a rainfall deficit: spring 2025 was the driest since 1974, which \u2018put severe pressure on public water supply networks, with many reservoirs reaching alarming levels and nearly 10 million people left without water.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Was this unusually sunny and dry weather also caused by global warming? The answer is not as obvious as it is for temperatures: \u2018it could simply be natural variability, although the reduction of aerosols [pollutants, editor\u2019s note] could also play a role. Current climate projections show no conclusive evidence of a future change in sunshine linked to climate change,\u2019 the Met Office explains. Even if the reason is still unclear, the UK\u2019s skies are changing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futura-sciences.com\/en\/if-solar-panels-work-with-sunlight-why-arent-we-covering-the-deserts-with-them_22061\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sunlight<\/a> has been increasing almost every year across the country since 1980, and the records keep stacking up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/karine-durand-profil-100x100.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"karine-durand\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Karine Durand<\/p>\n<p>Specialist for extreme weather and environment<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"270\">A specialist in extreme weather phenomena and environmental issues, this journalist and TV host has been explaining climate topics since 2009. With over 15 years of experience in both French and American media, she is also an international speaker.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"515\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Trained in communication and environmental sciences, primarily in the United States, she shares her passion for vast natural landscapes and the impacts of climate change through her work on biodiversity and land management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom, a region known for its gray skies and damp weather, is seeing a real shift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}