February 12th - The Hottest Ever!

February 12th was the hottest ever on record this year, for the UK! More than double the average temperature for February, the sun shone as brilliantly as we would expect it to in June, giving some parts of the country a temperature of 18°. The usual temperature for February is, on average, just 7°.

Experts are warning, just as we would expect, that this is another warning that climate change is happening here and now, and that British summers could be dangerously hot within the next 5 years. But how much hotter are our summers really becoming? What do readers feel? Is it possible that what we are seeing is actually more of an evening out of temperature across the seasons?

Incidentally, in 1999, January 6th was only a couple of degrees behind, at 16°, which was a record temperature since 1841. Bearing this in mind, maybe February 12th’s “heat wave” was not quite so extraordinary after all?