The Met Office warns the warming trend will continue through the 21st century - and predicts more records to be broken.
The last decade was the second hottest in the past 100 years in the UK and holds eight high-temperature records.The Met Office said the 10 years from 2010 to 2019 had been the second warmest and second wettest decade in the country over the past century, slightly behind 2000 to 2009.
The 2010s also saw the highest UK daily maximum temperature records set for February, July, October, November and provisionally for December. Further records for highest daily minimum temperature were set for January, February and April between 2010 and 2019.This compared to just one low-temperature record during this decade, with the Beast from the East in 2018 leading to the coldest March day on record with a maximum temperature of -4.7C recorded at Tredegar in South Wales.
Dr Mark McCarthy, head of the National Climate Information Centre, said:"It is notable how many of these extreme records have been set in the most recent decade and how many more of them are reflecting high rather than low-temperature extremes: a consequence of our warming climate."
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