The Met Office , the United Kingdom ’s interior weather service , has announced that eight young temperature records have been arrange in the UK in the last tenner ( one pending confirmation ) . That ’s more than there were in the three late decades combined . Meanwhile , only one low-spirited - temperature record was set this year .
The weather of the British Isles can alter quite a pot so , despite the mood crisis rile on , we should n’t have a bun in the oven extreme cold effect to just vanish . For example , March 2018 broke the record for the cold March temperature ever recorded with a parky uttermost of -4.7 ° C ( 23.5 ° F ) in the Welsh town of Tredegar .
The record for the hottest October temperature was countersink in 2011 , the hottest November record was break in 2015 , and the blistering February , July , and December temperatures were all recorded in 2019 . The December economic value is presently still provisional as it bump just last week , but the July one wasthe hot ever recorded temperaturein the UK .
“ It is illustrious how many of these extreme records have been set in the most late decade and how many more of them are shine high- rather than low - temperature extreme point : a consequence of our thawing climate , ” Dr Mark McCarthy , head of the National Climate Information Centre , say in astatement .
The Met Office reports that the 2010s are the UK ’s second - red-hot decade in the last 100 long time . This might be surprising give how this decade has broken track record after record , but that measurement is an average of the years 2010 to 2019 and 2010 was a astonishingly cold year , bringing the decade ordinary slimly below that of the 2000s .
The 11 warm year in the UK since 1910 have all happened in the last 18 age . 2019 has also been an exceptionally rainy year , enter the top five for rainfall in several regions in central and eastern England . This has led toserious floodingacross the body politic .
The Met Office reports that despite the mixture of weather condition up and down the country , December 2019 was 1.3 ° C ( 2.3 ° vitamin C ) lovesome than average , with the Southeast of England receive 1.5 times more pelting than is distinctive for the last month of the year .
