2022 was officially the warmest year in British history, with 'lethal' heatwaves, amid warnings that climate change would mean heat records broken more often
The average temperature across the whole of 2022 was slightly above 10C, beating the previous highest of 9.88C in 2014, the Met Office said.
The UK had two separate "lethally hot" heatwaves over the summer, in July and August, with warnings of the possibility of thousands of excess deaths. Met Office Chief of Science and Technology, Professor Stephen Belcher, said he had not been "expecting to see [temperatures of 40C in the UK] in his career", adding it is "a real reminder that the climate has changed and will continue to change".
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