LONDON (Reuters) – The UK experienced its joint-warmest September ever last month due to the impact of climate change, its weather office said on Monday, citing provisional statistics.
September’s mean temperature of 15.2 degrees Celsius matched a record figure from 2006, the Met Office said, making it the highest for the month since records began in 1884.
“September 2023’s temperature was substantially influenced by climate change and our attribution study shows how this figure would have been practically impossible in a climate without human-induced greenhouse gas emissions,” Met Office Senior Scientist Jennifer Pirret said in a statement.
Last month also had the hottest day so far in 2023.
(Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; editing by William James and Sarah Young)
