The United Kingdom recorded its hottest-ever year in 2022, with an average temperature of 10.03 degrees Celsius.
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June's average mean temperature, calculated from the average daytime and nighttime temperature from across the UK, of 15.8C beats the previous record of 14.9C (set in both 1940 and 1976) by 0.9C. It wasthe hottest June sincerecords began in 1884. The Met Office's Mark M...
The global average air surface temperature in 2023 was 14.98C - beating the previous record set in 2016 by a "large margin" of 0.17C. Copernicus found 2023 was on average 1.48C warmer than levels before industrial times, when humans began burning fossil fuels at scale. Carlo Buontempo, dire...
The Met Office has confirmed that last month has broken the record for the hottest ever temperature recorded in the UK. Click to read more...
"As we move into next weekend, although the temperature is looking to increase in the south, that does increase the chance of some isolated showers popping up. "It is western areas that are looking likely to have the longer sunny periods, parts of Wales as well as the...
Monday's record temperature comes as the month of June was confirmed as the hottest June in the global record. Average temperatures across the planet were 1.46C above the average in the period between 1850 and 1900. The UK also recorded its hottest June while the impact of high temperatures ...
Experts weigh in Breaching a global temperature milestone? Based on the analysis of Copernicus, the UK Met Office, and Berkeley Earth, this was also the first year where global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average (from 1850-1...
“The global average temperature between now and 2023 is predicted to remain high, potentially making the decade from 2014 the warmest in more than 150 years of records.” Climate is what people can reasonably bank on; weather is what they get. The forecast is significant because it is eviden...
The news comes hot on the heels of a record warm June. Earlier this week, the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, declared June 2023 to be the hottest on record for the country, with an average mean temperature of 15.8°C (60.44°F) for the month, which is 2...