Weather tracker: looking back as summer ends in northern hemisphere

People using umbrellas and parasols to seek relief from the heat while crossing a street outside Shinjuku station in Tokyo. Photograph: Richard A Brooks/AFP/Getty Images

Entering September brings the arrival of meteorological autumn in the northern hemisphere, officially drawing the summer of 2023 to a close.

In the UK, the summer was a mixed bag. We started with a fairly pleasant June before entering into a wet and windy July caused by multiple consecutive weekend low pressure synoptic situations. A relatively unusual August followed in which we had two named storms, Antoni and Betty, before a pleasant warm spell.