Met Office confirms 2022 was UK’s warmest ever year with average temperature of 10C

Met Office says mean temperature across the 12 months was 10.03C

Only 275,000 daytime visitors went to central London on July 19 when temperatures hit 40C (PA )

The UK 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.

And research by Met Office scientists has found that climate change driven by humans made the UK’s record-breaking annual temperature around 160 times more likely to occur.

The full temperature data for 2022 shows that the country saw a provisional annual average temperature of 10.03C, the highest in records dating back to 1884 and 0.15C higher than the previous record of 9.88C set in 2014.