UK Records Hottest Ever Summer
Above: People swim in the River Nene in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, U.K., on June 30, 2025. Image copyright: Joe Giddens/PA Images/Getty Images
The Spin
Climate-concerned narrative
Blackberries, picnics and festivals are now just footnotes to a grim reality: the UK's hottest summer on record. This isn't a fluke but a dire consequence of our climate breakdown, transforming our cherished seasons into dangerous harbingers of drought, wildfires and disease, forever altering our relationship with the land.
Climate-skeptic narrative
U.K. weather reports are now increasingly more about alarmism and less about meteorology itself. Ignoring historical context and the fact that cold weather kills far more people than heat, the Met Office and media are fixated on using flawed data and exaggerated forecasts to sensationalize summer heat, deliberately stoking fear for attention.