British experts on Wednesday said 2022 was set to be the United Kingdom's warmest on record after a year of heatwaves and minimal rainfall.
The findings come as communities across the globe reel from a catalogue of extreme weather this year including soaring temperatures and drought across Europe that saw crops wither and forest fires ravage swathes of land. FILE PHOTO
This year had the "highest annual average temperature across the UK, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 when the average was 9.88 degrees Celsius ", the Met Office, the UK's meteorological authority, said in a statement. "Although it doesn't mean every year will be the warmest on record, climate change continues to increase the chances of increasingly warm years over the coming decades," he added.
Satellite imagery showed the nation's traditionally green and lush countryside turning to various shades of yellow and brown, as huge swathes of southern, central and eastern England dried out.Winter was the eighth hottest, spring the fifth, summer the fourth and autumn the third.
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