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warmest June on record, while the UK as a whole experienced its second warmest, just behind June 2023. This follows a record-breaking spring and continues a trend of increasingly warm conditions linked to our changing climate. Minimum temperatures were particularly notable, with several tropical
2019 has been a year of extremes: record-breaking heat and rain, along with notable spells of cold and windy weather have all been prominent.
As we approach year-end, we’ve highlighted the most notable climate features of the year, including two all-time temperature records: Warmest winter day on record: 21.2 °C recorded at Kew Garden on 26 February Hottest day on record: 38.7 °C recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on 25
to the region’s ice, ocean and atmosphere to support global climate resilience. The project will deliver cutting-edge insights into Arctic weather patterns and ocean currents. More by Press Office Met Office Deep Dive: Record heat, flying ants, and a changeable outlook Record-breaking June 2025 weather stats
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previous date that any snow was recorded during October over this climate district was 29 October 1974, but in London it was 31 October 1934. There were also reports of snow lying at 0900 UTC (the time which climate stations take their daily observations) on 29 October 2008 from stations across SE
, the UK’s coldest December on record in a series from 1884, was an exceptional 5.1°C colder than the 1991-2020 average. Mike Kendon is a climate information scientist working for the National Climate Information Centre in the Met Office. He said: “December’s weather will principally be remembered
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). Further mixing of warm waters cannot be ruled out as an additional cause of the very low extent of 2023. The precise contribution of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming to the record low sea ice of 2023 is not yet known. While climate models predict that Antarctic sea ice extent will decrease
The annual global temperature figures for 2019 confirm that the past decade was the warmest on record.
The data also show that the past five years were the warmest in the 170-year series. The balance of evidence using multiple data sets suggests that 2019, a year without a strong classical El Niño, is the second warmest year for annual global temperatures in records that begin in 1850. Only 2016 has
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