Met Office scientists warned that such an abnormally hot year may now occur every three to four years. As a result of human activity that has polluted and warmed the climate.
The average annual temperature in the United Kingdom exceeded 10 degrees Celsius for the first time in 2022, according to the Met Office.
The national meteorological service also reported that 2022 was the hottest year ever recorded in the United States, confirming estimates that the year would establish a new record.
The annual average temperature was 10.03C, surpassing the previous record of 9.88C set in 2014.
The high temperatures caused a protracted drought, jeopardized the harvests, and resulted in hundreds of additional deaths.
UK average yearly temperature reached 10C in 2022
The report cautioned that such an abnormally hot year is now expected to occur every three to four years. Previously, it would have occurred once every 500 years if people had not polluted and warmed the climate.
Met Office Climate Attribution Scientist Dr. Nikos Christidis stated that towards the end of this century. A UK average temperature of 10C “may occur virtually every year” if the earth heats by the expected 2.7C.
This indicates that the ten warmest years since records began in 1884 have all occurred during the past two decades.
Dr. Mark McCarthy, director of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, stated that the news regarding 2022 “is not surprising.”
Even the noteworthy cold spell in December did not affect the record-setting average temperature of the previous year. There have been no top ten coldest years in the past six decades. And the majority of them occurred before 1920.
In addition to the greatest drought in Europe in 500 years, severe heat in India. And losses of billions of dollars from Hurricane Ian in Florida. And flooding in Pakistan, dozens of additional records were broken all across the world in 2012.
Combustion of fossil fuels, extensive livestock rearing, and deforestation all contribute to the rise in global temperature. Which in turn causes costly, violent, and harsh weather.
In 2022, the average temperature in England was 10.94 degrees Celsius, followed by Wales (10.23 degrees Celsius). Northern Ireland (9.85 degrees Celsius), and Scotland (10.15 degrees Celsius) (8.50C).
On 19 July, temperatures in Lincolnshire reached 40.30 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest ever recorded in the nation.
