UK weather: 2022 was warmest year ever, Met Office confirms

Last twelvemonth was the UK's warmest twelvemonth connected record, the Met Office has confirmed.

The mean yearly somesthesia successful 2022 was much than 10C for the archetypal time, it said.

The mean somesthesia crossed the 12 months was 10.03C - topping the erstwhile all-time precocious of 9.88C successful 2014.

It means 15 of the UK's apical 20 warmest years connected grounds person each occurred this period - with the full apical 10 wrong the past 2 decades.

Dr Mark McCarthy, caput of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said: "Although an arbitrary number, the UK surpassing an yearly mean somesthesia of 10C is simply a notable infinitesimal successful our climatological history.

"This infinitesimal comes arsenic nary surprise, since 1884 each the 10 years signaling the highest yearly somesthesia person occurred from 2003.

"It is wide from the observational grounds that human-induced planetary warming is already impacting the UK's climate."

All 4 nations acceptable records for vigor successful 2022, with England seeing the highest mean somesthesia astatine 10.94C, followed by Wales (10.23C), Northern Ireland (9.85C) and Scotland (8.50C).