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warmer in the last 100 years. A new course for the red admiral The striking red admiral butterfly has always been a familiar visitor to parks and gardens the length and breadth of the UK. It used to be an exclusively migratory butterfly arriving on our shores after crossing the English Channel

on this day in the UK was 16.3°C at St James Park, London in 2022. Scotland’s warmest New Year’s Day reached 15.9°C at Achnagart (Ross & Cromarty) in 2022, while Wales saw 16.2°C at Arthog Fergla Fach Farm (Gwynedd) in 2022. Northern Ireland’s warmest was 15.1°C at Murlough (Down) in 2015. In stark

significant levels of rainfall caused the river Don to burst its banks, flooding Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium. In 2015 torrential rain accompanying Storm Desmond saw Carlisle United’s Brunton Park flooded, and the club was forced out of the stadium for seven weeks.   These events may act

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-Soar where a caravan park had to be evacuated. Colder air then returned and the following week saw some severe overnight frosts (-18.9C at Altnaharra, northern Scotland on the 11th) and further snow showers. More widespread snow affected parts of southwest England on the 8th, resulting in an amber

. It was a mild night into the 5th, Cardiff Bute Park not falling below 16.4 °C, then there was widespread rain all morning, heavy at times, before it became drier and brighter with scattered showers, and an isolated thunderstorm in the north. The 6th was breezy with showers. Early showers

, giving an overall figure of 132% of average, provisionally the third sunniest January for the UK in a series from 1919. The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 16.3 °C was recorded at St James’s Park (Greater London) on the 1st. A minimum temperature of -8.0 °C

on the 2nd, with light snow showers in the north-east, and very wet with rain, sleet and snow in the Midlands and East Anglia from mid-a ernoon. It remained very cold with an overnight minimum temperature of -10.0 °C at Alston Springhouse Park (Cumbria), and windy too with gusts of 84 mph reported

: A maximum temperature of 22.9 °C was recorded at Thornes Park (West Yorkshire) on the 8th. A minimum temperature of -3.6 °C was recorded at Redesdale Camp (Northumberland) on the 16th. In the 24 hours ending at 0900 UTC on the 28th, 222.6 mm of rain fell at Honister Pass (Cumbria). A wind gust of 65