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Jan 30, 2024. The United Kingdom recorded its hottest ever year in 2022, with an average temperature of 10.03 degrees Celsius. Since the start of temperature recording in 1884, the 10 warmest ...
- How Was The Met Office founded?
- How Does The Met Office Make Weather Forecasts?
- How Are Record Temperatures Measured?
- Hottest Temperatures in UK History
The Meteorological Office, known as the Met Office for short, is the UK’s national weather service and was founded in 1854. The original purpose of the organisation was to learn more about marine climatology and improve the safety of men at sea. Its creator, Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, gained notoriety as captain of the HMS Beagle for Charles Darw...
The Met Office’s forecasting methods have changed somewhat over the past century or so. The very first predictions were made using 15 land stations positioned around the UK. They would telegraph weather reports at set times to help make forecasts for other areas. In 1922, Met Office scientist Lewis Fry Richardson published a piece of work that chan...
The Met Office holds weather observation records on a digital database for all of its stations dating back to 1853. Every day data points go through quality control, such as checking against nearby stations, to make sure they are accurate. Potential weather records are required to go through rigorous testing and reviewing, which may take several mo...
The UK’s 2022 heatwave resulted in some exceptionally high temperatures that smashed previous records. Here are the 10 hottest temperatures in UK history: 1. 40.3°C - Coningsby, Lincolnshire - 19 July 2022 2. 38.7°C – Cambridge Botanic Gardens, Cambridgeshire – 25 July 2019 3. 38.5°C – Faversham, Kent – 10 August 2003 4. 38.2°C - Pitsford, Northamp...
173. 278. 150. Cairn Gorm, Scottish Highlands. 20 March 1986. Shetland holds the unofficial British record for wind speed. A gust of 197 mph (317 km/h) was reported on 1 January 1992. An earlier gust in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph (285 km/h), both at RAF Saxa Vord. [12] However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have ...
Jan 30, 2024. While 2023 ranked as England's second-hottest year in over a century, the highest mean temperature in the country was recorded one year earlier, at an average of 10.93 degrees ...
Jul 25, 2024 · The number of ‘pleasant’ days (daily maximum 20°C) has increased by 41% for the most recent decade (2014-2023) compared to 1961-1990. The number of ‘warm’ days (25°C) has increased by 63%, ‘hot’ days (28°C) have more than doubled and ‘very hot’ days (30°C) have more than trebled over the same period. Although rainfall has a ...
Jul 31, 2019 · Beginning with the hottest, the top ten warmest years in sequence are: 2014; 2006; 2011; 2007; 2017; 2003; 2018; 2004; 2002; and 2005. Beginning with the coldest, the top ten coolest years in sequence are: 1892 1888; 1885; 1963; 1919; 1886; 1917; 1909; 1887; and 1962. 2018 contained some notable weather events, including the summer heatwave and ...
Jul 19, 2022 · In total temperatures of above 40C were recorded in six places, while 28 others also broke the previous record of 38.7C. Nine of the 10 hottest days ever recorded have been since 1990, according ...
