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UK weather: Will October be as unusually warm as September?

The Met Office has said that the UK's mean temperature in September would have been virtually impossible without human-induced climate change - will that unusually warm weather affect October too?

BBC Weather's Helen Willetts takes a look at the temperatures for the week ahead, after October started on its warmest day in five years with 24C.

2 October 2023

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