The average temperature in the UK exceeded 10°C in 2022 for the first time in history, an event that experts say occurs once every 500 years without man-made climate change.
The British meteorological office Met announced on Thursday that 2022 was the hottest year on record in the country, with an average temperature of 10.03°C.
Those records began in 1884 and since then the 10 warmest years have been recorded since 2003, the meteorological service said, confirming trends seen elsewhere in Europe this winter.
The Met studied current temperatures by comparing them to models made by subtracting the impact of human influence on the climate, explained Nikos Christidis, a scientist at the Met.
“The results showed that in a natural climate 10ºC would be recorded (on average) once every 500 years, whereas in our current climate it could occur once every three or four years,” he said.
If carbon emissions are not drastically reduced, “the UK’s average temperature could reach 10°C almost every year” by the end of this century, he added.
The Met’s British report comes just days after the launch of a larger study on January 10 by Copernicus, the European Union’s planetary observation program, of weather patterns in the EU and around the world over the past year.
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