England has endured its joint hottest summer on record, the Met Office said.
Provisional figures show this summer, covering June, July and August, had an average temperature of 17.1C - tying with 2018 to be the warmest in records stretching back to 1884.
It means that four of the five warmest summers on record for England have occurred since 2003, as the effect of human-induced climate change is felt on the country's summer temperatures, the forecaster said.
