UK weather: Is hot February down to climate change?
We should remember that warm weather in February has happened before, BBC weather presenter Nick Miller tells Newsbeat.
Tuesday's weather reached 20.8C in Porthmadog in north-west Wales and 21.2C in Kew Gardens in London.Image copyrightRichard Millar, senior analyst at the Committee for Climate Change, says the weather we're having now is something we can expect to continue going into the future. "The news that's been covering 'this is record-breaking heat for February' - as the climate gets warmer we do expect these kind of records to be broken."
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