Last year Britain's hottest
Preliminary figures released by the Met Office
and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Centre as
Geographical went to press suggest that 2006 was the UK’s hottest year
on record.
Weather stations across central England recorded a mean annual temperature of 10.84°C which exceeded the two previous hottest years – 1990 and 1999 – by 0.21°C. The hottest month ever was experienced in July with a mean temperature of 19.7°C, and autumn was also the warmest ever, with a mean temperature of 12.6°C.
The Central England Temperature series has been monitoring the weather in a roughly triangular area with its corners at Bristol, Lancashire and London since 1659.
Globally, provisional figures for January–November show that 2006 was the sixth warmest year since records began in 1850.
February 2007
Weather stations across central England recorded a mean annual temperature of 10.84°C which exceeded the two previous hottest years – 1990 and 1999 – by 0.21°C. The hottest month ever was experienced in July with a mean temperature of 19.7°C, and autumn was also the warmest ever, with a mean temperature of 12.6°C.
The Central England Temperature series has been monitoring the weather in a roughly triangular area with its corners at Bristol, Lancashire and London since 1659.
Globally, provisional figures for January–November show that 2006 was the sixth warmest year since records began in 1850.
February 2007
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