It’s certainly a wet start to 2014 here in Brighton, but did you know that 2014 was the warmest year in the UK since records began as well as one of the wettest?
Colour-coded Map of UK showing how each region of the UK exceeded the 1981-2010 average temperature. Crown Copyright
2014 was the warmest year in the UK ‘since records began’ – and most probably the warmest since at least 1659. You can read the Met Office Summary here
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) also report that 2014 is likely to have been the warmest year in Europe and indeed over the entire Earth for at least 100 years.
This was briefly ‘news‘ but somehow this astonishing statistic seems to have disappeared almost without trace.
In fact there are three astonishing things about the statistic
- Firstly – we know it, and it is likely to be correct.
- Secondly – the warmest year was ‘warmer all over’ but did not include the ‘hottest month’.
- Thirdly- the warmest year was also overly wet – both in the UK and world wide.
This article is about why
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