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Mweather map of the us febuary 20193/21/2023 “More than 1.5 square kilometres of Saddleworth Moor was ablaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning after the UK’s hottest winter day on record,” reported the Independent, noting: MailOnline reported that “wildfires broke out across the country ” as the “hottest winter day ever created arid conditions and left fields parched”.įirefighters were called to fires in Sussex, Edinburgh, North Wales and Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester. Media coverage also tackled the knock-on impacts of the warm winter weather. The New York Times also noted that Ireland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands have all seen record, or near-record, winter temperatures over the past week. This February was also the second warmest on record for UK average temperature – beaten only by 1998 – and the second sunniest.) (The Met Office has now confirmed that 2019 has broken the UK’s record for the highest average daily maximum temperature for the month of February. The purple shading indicates the regions that have hit more than 10C above average. The maps below, created for Carbon Brief by the Met Office’s Dr Mark McCarthy, show Met Office maps of daily maximum temperature, relative to 1981-2010, for the past six days. Met Office meteorologist Martin Bowles told the Guardian that “the average temperature for this time of year is 9C in London and 9C in north Wales, so what we’re seeing is 10C above average”. The Met Office maps below show UK-wide daily maximum temperatures – relative to a 1981-2010 baseline – on the day of the previous record in 1998 (left) and then on the record-breaking day this year.ĭaily maximum temperatures for 13 February 1998 (left) and 26 February 2019 (right), relative to a baseline period of 1981-2010. On the same day a year earlier, Kew Gardens was a frigid 2.4C, the Met Office noted. Just a day later, on Tuesday, temperatures at Porthmadog, Gwynedd, reached 20.8C, reported the Daily Telegraph, and then, later in the day, 21.2C at Kew Gardens, London, said Sky News. “The UK was twice as hot as Athens and warmer than Ibiza,” said the Daily Mirror. This topped the previous record for the warmest February day of 19.7C in Greenwich, London in 1998, noted the Metro. It’s officially the UK’s warmest winter day on record three sites exceeded 20 Celsius today with 20.6 ☌ at Trawsgoed, Ceredigion the highest temperature ☀️□️ /eMCYDUdwW7 Temperatures in Trawsgoed, Wales, reached 20.3C that morning, before going on to hit 20.6C in the afternoon. On Monday, the UK, as a whole, saw its first winter day on record where temperatures exceeded 20C, as the Guardian reported. ![]() On Sunday, Wales saw a new record high February temperature of 19.1C at Gogerddan – beating the previous record of 18.6C at Velindre in 1990. On Friday, 21 weather stations across the north of the UK saw new high temperatures – with some beating previous records by 2.5C. Today was a #recordbreaking day! The Scottish record maximum temperature for February, which has stood for 122 years, has finally been broken by Aboyne, with a temperature of 18.3C ☀️□️ /m8DnuK36lv The measurement of 18.3C at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire broke the previous record that had stood for 122 years. Thursday 21 February and Friday 22 February both saw maximum temperatures top 18C, with Thursday seeing a new record high February temperature for Scotland. The UK’s spell of unusually warm weather began during the third week of February.
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