Climate change: UK's 10 warmest years all occurred since 2002
The Met Office scientist who compiled the new analysis says that the clustering of all the warmest years in the first two decades of the 21st Century is what would be expected in a changing climate.
"Although we do still experience colder extremes like 'the beast from the east' last spring, generally speaking the story we have is that overall it's the warmer events and these higher temperatures that are dominating." Colder years have been in short supply since the turn of the millennium, with 2010 being the chilliest, and that only ranks at 22nd on the cold list.
This latest analysis is another way of highlighting what our warming climate means. It won't be the end of deep freeze winters or of chilly summers - our island weather is too variable for that.
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