00:01The United Kingdom is on course to record its warmest summer on record.
00:06That is according to the country's National Weather Service.
00:10Provisional statistics showed that the current recorded mean temperature across the UK
00:14from the 1st of June until the 10th of August was just under 16.5 degrees Celsius.
00:20That is 1.88 degrees Celsius higher than the average for the same period between 1991 and 2020.
00:29The figures also show last month was the driest July on record for England and Wales.
00:34Nearly three quarters of England and the whole of Wales is already officially in drought.
00:40Last week the Met Office had issued amber heat alerts for parts of the UK
00:44with temperatures expected to reach up to 37 degrees Celsius in some areas.
00:50Western mainland Europe is also gearing up to face yet another heat wave this week.
00:55Europe is the world's fastest warming continent with temperatures rising at around twice the global average.
01:02This summer's record temperatures has left 38% of Europe's land in drought.
01:07With a little bit of a 200-800-plus-permissary, local IP, and local IP.
01:08Please welcome back to the programme for the first two-year-old.
01:09The National Weather Service is a unit of the National Weather Service to go to the HHC.
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