This summer was Jersey’s fourth-hottest on record with an average temperature of 19.2°C.
Figures released by Jersey Met showed the average temperature across June, July and August was 1.5°C above the long-term average.
This ranked just below the record summers of 1976 and 2022 but well above the 30-year average mark, measured between 1991 and 2020.
Warm weather was a feature of the early stages of meteorological summer, with the hottest June on record being recorded this year.
This year’s summer was also sunnier than normal, with a figure of 846 hours being around 60 higher than the long-term average, but well short of the 999 hours recorded in 1976.
After rainfall levels that were around average in June and July, August was significantly drier than usual, with 28.3mm being less than half of the 30-year average mark. This left an overall summer rainfall figure of 127.5mm, around 30mm below the long-term average.