The UK has recorded an annual average temperature of more than 10C for the first time last year, the Met Office said, as it confirmed 2022 was the country's hottest year on record
Research by Met Office scientists has also found that climate change driven by humans made the UK's record-breaking annual temperature around 160 times more likely to occur.
The warm conditions would have been expected once in 500 years under a natural climate, without humans warming the planet through activities such as burning fossil fuels, but is now likely every three to four years in the current climate, the experts said.
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