Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.
"That's significant in a warming climate and because of the consequential impacts on society," he added.
The Met Office used a supercomputer to analyse the temperatures and identify the fingerprint of climate change on the weather. "Alongside natural variability, the background warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to human-induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record-high temperatures," he added.The world has warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial revolution about 200 years ago.
Last year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been "virtually impossible without climate change".
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