Brits To Sizzle In Hottest Summer Ever

The Meteorological Office, known as the Met Office for short, is the UK’s national weather service and was founded in 1854 by Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy who made daily forecasts as a way to warn sailors and fishermen about potentially deadly storms but the public became interested in them as it was useful to know when they could go hang the washing out or to take a brolly to work so he made them public.
While back then it was largely information from word of mouth, weather singularities and some guy with a pencil and a map, today's forecasts are made by Super-Computers crunching millions of bits of weather information but a little known secret is that they may spit out long range weather forecasts but anything more than 48 hours ahead is a best guess, although a highly educated one.
The Daily Star, without any actual quotes from anyone that far enough up the Meteorological Chain of Command to warrant such headlines, screamed: 'Brits set to sizzle in hottest summer ever as forecasters predict record temperatures' which probably leant more to the usefulness of the headline to include pictures of sexy teenage girls in bikini's than any proper forecasting but the MET Office replied stuffily that they expect: 'An above-average chance of warmer-than-average conditions but this is not an indication of an imminent record-breaking summer, as the cooler, or more average conditions remain possible' and pointing towards how seven of the 10 hottest UK temperatures have been recorded since 2003 and with Climate Change  rampant, well it doesn't take a genius to work out that Summer 2025 is going to be making an appearance in the top 10 somewhere.
What the MET Office does have is weather information dating back to 1853 and they list the Top 10 hottest UK temperatures as:

    40.3°C -  Lincolnshire - 19 July 2022
    38.7°C – Cambridgeshire – 25 July 2019
    38.5°C – Kent – 10 August 2003
    38.2°C -  Northamptonshire - 18 July 2022
    37.8°C – London – 31 July 2020
    37.1°C – Gloucestershire – 3 August 1990
    36.7°C – London – 1 July 2015
    36.7°C – Northamptonshire – 9 August 1911
    36.6°C – Worcestershire – 2 August 1990
    36.5°C – Surrey – 19 July 2006

As none of the 10 hottest UK temperatures have been reported outside of England, mid July to mid August could be a good time to visit one of the other nations in the United Kingdom or pitch a tent in the frozen aisle of the local Supermarket.