A 'sinister' warning was issued by The Met Office as it was confirmed June was the hottest on record in the UK. Nationally, temperatures hit an average of 15.8C this year, surpassing the previous record of 14.9C.
Confirming the news, Met Office officials stressed the news was a warning of the impact climate change is having on our country, The Mirror reports. Paul Davies, Met Office climate extremes principal fellow and chief meteorologist, said: "The background warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to human induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record high temperatures.
"Using our... climate projections, we can also see that there is a difference in the frequency of these sorts of extremes depending on the emissions scenario we follow in the future. By the 2050s the chance of surpassing the previous record of 14.9C could be as high as around 50 per cent, or every other year."
