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The Met Office outlook for global temperature suggests 2024 will be a further record-breaking year, expected to exceed 2023, which is itself almost certain to be the warmest year on record.

The anticipated two-stage spike in global temperature has received a temporary and partial boost by the current El Niño event warming the tropical Pacific. But, says the Met Office’s Prof Adam Scaife: “The main driver for record-breaking temperatures is the ongoing human-induced warming since

for much of the week, temperatures will start to fall from their peak from Thursday onwards. Overnight temperatures will also be high for many. Friday saw 36.4°C recorded at Heathrow and Kew Gardens, the hottest August day since 10th August 2003 (38.5°C, Faversham). Whereas on on the weekend, 34.5

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in the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset which runs from 1850. Dr Colin Morice is a Climate Monitoring and Research Scientist with the Met Office. He said: “2022 was another near-record year for global average temperatures, despite the slight cooling influence of La Niña: a pattern of climate

September 2019 Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Briefing Note How is sea ice affected by climate change? • Arctic sea ice September extent has declined by about 12% per decade since satellite records began in 1979. Research suggests this decline is unprecedented in at least the last 1000 years

It’s been a long hot summer for many in the UK this year, but where does 2018 stand in comparison to previous record summers?

It already looks certain this summer – June, July and August - is going to be one of the warmest on record for the UK, after prolonged periods of hot weather. The latest mid-month statistics for August suggest the race for the very top spot in terms of temperature is still wide open. After

, also beating the previous record. While the primary cause of this temperature record was the Foehn effect, this was also against a backdrop of increasing mean and maximum temperatures more generally as the UK’s climate continues to warm. Since 2011, the UK has recorded its highest maximum temperature

The latest prediction of global climate [issued today, Wednesday 28 May 2025] suggests the average global temperature is likely to continue to reach record or near-record levels in the coming five years.

typically over 20 years. The world’s global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average last year (2024) for the first time in the observational record. This was in part due to the El Niño phase of a natural cycle of climate variation in the tropical Pacific which slightly

Exceptional warmth February 2019 The UK experienced some exceptionally high temperatures for the time of year in a spell of fine, settled weather during the second half of February. On 26 February a maximum temperature of 21.2 °C was recorded at Kew Gardens (London), the UK’s highest temperature