10 of the UK's hottest years ever have come since 2002

The top 10 warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred since 2002, a new analysis from the Met Office says.

Its State of the UK Climate report shows that 2014 remains the warmest year in a temperature sequence now dating back to 1884.

Despite last summer's blistering heat, 2018 only places as the seventh warmest year on record - as the statistic is based on temperatures all year round.

When it comes to the coldest years, the most recent in the top 10 was in 1963.

The patterns of warm and cold years in Britain are a clear signal of climate change, say scientists.

It comes after the Met Office confirmed this week that the UK's hottest temperature ever - 38.7C (101.7F) - was recorded on Thursday in Cambridge.

Syl wrote:Well move up north then. Apart from last Thursday (when the temp was still mid 30's late into the evening)Manchester summers are  typically cool, cloudy, and rainy.

You would soon be wishing it was MORE like Texas.

Syl wrote:Well move up north then. Apart from last Thursday (when the temp was still mid 30's late into the evening)Manchester summers are  typically cool, cloudy, and rainy.

You would soon be wishing it was MORE like Texas.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Syl wrote:Well move up north then. Apart from last Thursday (when the temp was still mid 30's late into the evening)Manchester summers are  typically cool, cloudy, and rainy.

You would soon be wishing it was MORE like Texas.

Depends on what you mean by cool, really. It's been hovering in the low to mid 20s in Essex lately and that's pretty mild to me, though I've heard some call it hot once it reaches near 26. That's ridiculous, I usually wouldn't have thought to put the AC on back in Texas until it was around 28.

Maddog wrote:You should have stayed here. It's been a very cool summer here, until yesterday anyway.