LONDON, Sept 2 — England had its joint hottest summer on record this year, tied with 2018, the country’s meteorological agency said Thursday as it unveiled provisional mean temperature statistics for the three-month period.
“It is too early to speculate on how the year overall will finish, but the persistent warm conditions are certainly notable and have certainly been made more likely by climate change,” Mark McCarthy of the National Climate Information Centre said. Detailing the seasonal period starting in June, the Met Office — whose records date back to 1884 — confirmed England’s mean temperature of 17.1 degree Celsius was the joint warmest ever, equalling the summer of four years ago.
“This means that four of the five warmest summers on record for England have occurred since 2003, as the effects of human-induced climate change are felt on England’s summer temperatures,” the Met Office noted. Some water companies have imposed restrictions on water use, including hosepipe bans, with the lack of rainfall and punishing heat depleting rivers, reservoirs and groundwater levels.
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