Climate crisis fuels year of record temperatures in UK, says Met Office – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Thehottest December day is also likely to have been exceeded when 25. 7C was recorded at Achfary in the Scottish Highlands on the th, but this is awaiting verification. The Highlands also recorded the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in February – of (*******************************************************************************************************************. 9C at Achnagart.

Eight high temperature records were broken in the last decades, but only one for a low temperature. That was for the lowest maximum temperature for a March day, when Tredegar in Wales never got warmer than -4.7C on 1 March during the “beast from the east” weather event.

“It is notable how many of these extreme records have been set in the most recent decade and how many more of them are reflecting high rather than low-temperature extremes, a consequence of our warming climate,” said Mark McCarthy, the head of the Met Office’s national climate information center.

(************************************************ (High temperatures in) ********************************************************************Global heating is blamed for a series of new high records in the UK. (************************************** The UK’s weather is particularly variable because of the competing influences of the Atlantic Ocean and continental Europe. This means that low temperature records can still be set even as the average temperature rises due to global heating.

Globally, 3500 is expected to be the second or third hottest year since (***************************************************************************. It was thehottest ever in Australia (************************************, wherehuge wildfires are burning, andin Russia. The global average temperature for the last decade is also expected to be the highest recorded, (according to the World Meteorological Organization.) **********************************

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The UK climate is warming, the Met Office said, but this does not mean every decade will be significantly warmer than the one preceding it. The s were the second hottest and second wettest decade in years, slightly behind the s. This is partly the result of a cold year in 2018, but the Met Office said such years occur much less frequently now than in the past.

The coming year is a significant one for action to fight the climate emergency, with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, and many others urging natioThe UK government will host a key UN summit in Glasgow in November.

A (recent comprehensive expert analysis) connected that the world was on a path to climate disaster, with three-quarters of the commitments countries made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement rated as “totally inadequate”. Nations agreed to limit global heating to 2C above pre-industrial levels, or 1.5C if possible. Each country made a voluntary pledge of climate action, but to date these would result in global temperatures rising by a disastrous 3-4C.