2022 was UK's warmest year on record, says meteorology office

LONDON

2022 was the UK's warmest year on record as for the time average annual temperature has been over 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), the British meteorology office announced on Thursday.

"The full annual UK mean temperature data for 2022 resulted in a provisional figure of 10.03°C, the highest in records dating back to 1884," the Met Office said in a statement.

On Dec. 28, the department said that 2022 will be the warmest year on record for the UK.

"The results showed that recording 10°C (degrees Celsius) in a natural climate would occur around once every 500 years, whereas in our current climate it could be as frequently as once every three to four years," said Nikos Christidis, a climate attribution scientist at the office.