2022 will be the warmest year on record for the UK, the Met Office has said.
The average temperature for the year is on track to beat the previous all-time high of 9.88C set in 2014, provisional data shows.Read more: Lyric Theatre cancels The Snow Queen shows due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
A sequence of heatwaves starting in June led to the UK experiencing its fourth warmest summer on record, while temperatures broke the 40C mark for the first time, hitting a new record of 40.3C on July 19 at Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Met Office temperature records for the UK begin in 1884 and show the top 10 years with the highest annual temperature have all occurred this century. After 2022 and 2014, the next warmest years are 2006, 2020 and 2011, followed by 2007, 2017, 2003, 2018 and 2004.
* the coldest first two weeks of December since 2010, with temperatures dropping as low as -17.3C at Braemar in the Scottish Highlands.
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