This year will have been the warmest in the UK, the Met Office has said. Although for many people the record from the year that attracted the most attention was that the summer heatwave reached 40. 3℃, the organization said that more significant was a figure 30 degrees lower-the average temperature over the course of the year.
Although the exact temperature will need to be confirmed in the new year, the Met Office predicted that 2022 is going to exceed(超过) the previous record for the warmest annual average, which was 9. 88℃ in 2014. Apart from this month, every other month in the UK in 2022 was warmer than average. New Year's Day 2022 was the warmest on record, exceeding 16℃ in North Wales. Dr. Mark McCarthy, head of the National Climate Information Centre, said: "While many people will remember the summer's extreme heat, what hurts people most, especially the elderly, this year is the relatively consistent heat through the year." Although this summer was the fourth warmest on record, it was the first in which the temperature exceeded 40℃.
McCarthy said that we can expect to see increasingly warmer summers as a consequence of climate change. "The warm year is in line with the impacts we expect as a result of human-related climate change." he said. "Although it doesn't mean every year will be the warmest on record, climate change continues to increase the chances of increasingly warm years over the coming decades." Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: "These aren't the kind of records you want to be breaking. Record-breaking investment in the renewable technologies will get us out of this mess. "
At present though, Britain is ready for rain, with forecasters warning of difficult driving conditions caused by wet weather over the next few days. Although temperatures will stay mild for much of the UK, the Met Office warned that the rainfall will hit England and Wales this Saturday and Sunday.
