Met Office: UK Summer 2025 ‘Almost Certainly’ Hottest On Record

Written by Andy Rowlands on September 1, 2025. Posted in Current News

PSI editors predicted earlier this year that you can almost guarrantee every year will now be ‘the hottest on record’, and it seems we have been proven right

The BBC enthusiatically announced on August 26th that:

The United Kingdom has “almost certainly” had its hottest summer on record, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office

Paul Homewood of Not A Lot Of People Know That commented:

It has become apparent for a couple of weeks now that the Met Office were determined to claim this summer as the hottest evah.

The claim is transparently absurd, as anybody who lived through the summer of 1976 will attest. Unlike the Met Office and BBC, I will wait until all the data is in to pass judgement.

But this latest edict from the Met Office just how far their UK temperature datasets have become divorced from reality. They pretend to know the average UK temperature to a few hundredths of a degree.

Yet the dataset is almost entirely based on worthless junk sites, so badly sited that they might be overestimating temperatures by as much as five degrees.

No reputable scientific organisation would claim any significance from such worthless data, which in itself shows how politicised the Met Office has become.

And with perfect timing, Chris Morrison reveals the latest Met Office temperature tampering scandal:

The UK Met Office has over 100 non-existent weather stations where it estimates temperature data using information from “well-correlated neighbouring sites”. However, it refuses to identify any of the sites used and bats away Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the excuse that they are “vexatious” and not in the public interest.

But today the Climate Skeptic can reveal recent work that shows how in the case of the fictitious site at Lowestoft there are no open weather stations for miles around, well-correlated or otherwise.

Unless the Met Office can finally reveal its workings out, the only realistic conclusion to draw is that the data are invented. It is the ‘smoking gun’ that demands a full public explanation from the Met Office.

You can see the BBC article here bbc.co.uk

See Chris Morrison’s article here climateskeptic.org

See Paul Homewood’s article here notalotofpeopleknowthat

Quite how it can be claimed a season is a record-breaker, when we were still in that season escapes me.

With the Met Office closing rural weather stations and erecting them in urban areas where they are subject to the Urban Heat Island Effect, claiming weather records from stations that don’t exist, and changing the definition of a heatwave from seven consecutive days to three, they, along with the BBC and virtually all the mainstream media, have morphed from a public service into a promoter of the so-called ‘climate emergency’ that does not exist.

On August 30th, the BBC Media Centre website announced a ‘Groundbreaking new BBC and Met Office partnership to deliver a world class public weather service‘.

See it here bbc.co.uk

The days of the BBC delivering a ‘world class’ anything are long gone I’m afraid.

They still claim to be the ‘gold standard’ of news reporting, and 30 years ago that was true, but today, they are probably the least trustworthy source of news on anything to do with politics, vaccinations, the weather and climate, leaning heavily to the left on all those subjects.

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a British university graduate in space science and Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the 2019 climate science book ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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