Overall, it was the warmest autumn on record for Northern Ireland and third warmest for the UK (behind 2006 and 2011). After its cold start, April proceeded to be the frostiest and sunniest April on record for the UK. Support your business with world-leading science and technology. "Well, a winter month as cold or colder than January 2021 used to occur in approximately seven out of 10 winters through the 20th Century. Temperatures plunges to -22.9C on coldest night in 25 years This is a "cold" winter in our current climate, but not as severe as cold winters of the past. Scientists achieve the coldest temperature ever recorded To start May, Frances average minimum temperature plunged to 2.6 degrees Celsius (36.7 Fahrenheit), a level reached only once before in the past 40 years, Mto-France reported. Thanks to climate attribution science, we can quantify the role of human-caused climate change on these statistics using now well-established attribution methods. This makes it the coldest January since 2010, when the average was 0.9C. An amber Met Office warning for snow is in place until 1pm on Tuesday across the north of England, with between one and six inches falling in Derbyshire, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. This was a shockingly cold month, the coldest April in my lifetime, and remarkably fell after record breaking heat at the very end of March, wrote Scott Duncan, a London-based meteorologist, in an email. This number of air frosts ismore typicalfor December, January or February,whereastheaverage number of air frostsin April is five days. 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", "Heatwave: Wales' second hottest day brings health warning", "Scotland's record temperature of 34.8C at Charterhall confirmed", "Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK's record-breaking summer in 2022", "Extreme weather: October downpour sees UK's wettest day on record", "Weather eye: The wettest habitable place in Britain", "Climate change: May was sunniest calendar month on record in UK", "Highlands mountain claims strongest UK wind", "Snow Britain: Wrong kind of snow strikes again", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Kingdom_weather_records&oldid=1152536645, Highest total in any 24-hour period (1800-1800), Highest 24-hour total (UK national average), Highest monthly total (UK national average), This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 20:57. Many of my non-meteorologist friends pointed out how savage the wind chill was when dining in the shade.. None were in place for the other UK nations on Wednesday night. HadCM3 is a coupled climate model that has been used extensively for climate prediction, detection and attribution, and other climate sensitivity studies. [12] However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have been achieved as during both storms the measuring equipment was destroyed by the extreme weather. Climate change: 2021 will be cooler but still in top six warmest It is one of the most violent May storms in years, meteorologist Dominik Jung told German newspaper Merkur on Tuesday. It was Austrias coldest April in 20 years, Maximiliano Herrera, an expert on world weather extremes, tweeted that Hungary had its, Bidens misleading deficit claim earns him a Bottomless Pinocchio, Fact-checking Trumps reaction to Bidens reelection announcement. 2021 was the first year of a new decade. Storm Christoph (pdf) saw some exceptional rainfall totals during 18-20 January, requiring evacuation of homes in parts of Warrington, Chester and Manchester complicated by the coronavirus pandemic and snow. A frigid April weather pattern deprived much of Europe of springtime and the cold, stormy weather has yet to fully retreat. Averaged over all of Europe, it was the coldest April since 2003 according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Unions climate-monitoring agency. Mike Kendon is from the Met Office National Climate Information Centre. Absolutely classic Snow, sleet and freezing temperatures to hit UK as pub beer gardens reopen in England https://t.co/MkTWHqCQIe. , a climate information scientist working for the NCIC. statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. A person taking exercise in the snowy conditions in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The NHS said that despite the tough conditions many vaccination centres remained open, and any missed appointments would be rescheduled. Progression of extreme daily maximum temperature through the calendar year (data up to 2020) The legendary hot summer of 1976 prompted re-assessments of old extremes. Several councils in England, including Rugby Borough Council, and Southwark Council in London, were forced to briefly suspend waste collection services owing to the weather conditions. [13], A wind gust of 194mph (312km/h) was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008 but was discovered too late to be verified by the Met Office.[14]. Use Ask Statista Research Service, Monthly average daily temperatures in the United Kingdom 2015-2023, Monthly rainfall in the United Kingdom 2014-2022, Monthly average daily sun hours in the United Kingdom 2015-2023, Average rainfall in the United Kingdom 2001-2022. Storm Evert, the UKs first named storm to occur in July, brought heavy rain to the south in July and unusually strong winds for the time of year. This is a mere 0.12C above the 1991-2020 reference period, making it a decidedly average year in comparison to the climate of the recent past. In February, snowstorms and frozen rivers melted away in a balmy, if short-lived, patch of sunshine as temperatures leaped a record 42 degrees Celsius (75.6 Fahrenheit) in the space of a week. April 2021 third coldest April in UK since records began April 2021will be remembered as being a dry monthfor many places, as asmallshowery spell in the last week of the month did little tooffset thelong dry spells for many,andit will be one of the driest Aprils onrecord. London 2022 Past Weather (United Kingdom) - Weather Spark Tim is a climate information scientist within the National Climate Information Centre (NCIC). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Official blog of the Met Office news team, Record low temperature for the UK this millennium. Starred entries signify the then-highest temperature recorded up to that date, until surpassed by the next starred date above. Please contact us for commercial use. In fact it is even 2.0C colder than the recommended temperature for the inside of a domestic freezer. With an average temperature of 14.7C for the UK, September of 2021 was in fact only a little cooler than an average August (15.1C). It features all historical weather data series we have available, including the London temperature history for 2022. Fire crews battled a wildfire on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides on Wednesday, with similar incidents recorded on Skye, Harris and Bernera. Updated at 10:10 In contrast, May was exceptionally wet the fourth wettest on record for the UK and wettest on record for Wales. A minimum temperature of -16.0 C was recorded at Altnaharra. See all nearby weather stations. Autumn was persistently warmer than average, with a temperature of 30.8C recorded at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire on the 7 September. February 28, 2023. Learn more about how Statista can support your business. This was the smallest value for April since 2013 and was the ninth warmest April in the 142-year record. It is important to note the impact that the new reference period has on these figures. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the National Climate Information Centre. Historic April chill in the United Kingdom, Chilly weather may linger, except in southern Europe, Comparisons of claims against the evidence, Europe shivered through coldest April in decades, and its not relenting. Human-caused climate change does not mean a continual year-on-year increase in UK temperature, because our local climate is still heavily influenced by natural variability. This was a result of a warm conveyor (pdf) a situation associated with an atmospheric river bringing moisture-laden air from the subtropics and shared some similarities with extreme rainfall events of December 2015 and November 2009 (pdf). This record did not last for very long though with Castlederg in County Tyrone recording 31.3C a few days later on the 21 July. The maps below show average temperature (left), rainfall (middle) and sunshine duration (right) compared to 1991-2020, across the UK last year. UK weather: snow and ice close vaccination centres and schools, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Forecasters said the UK would experience scattered snow showers and some sunshine for the rest of Thursday. The UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands. The pattern featured a zone of high pressure over Greenland that forced the jet stream, which divides cold air and warm air, to dip south over Europe. 2021: the UK's weather in review - Met Office The forecast prompted responses from local councils in England, with residents warned to take extra care while the cold snap lasts. We have conducted analysis using a collection of climate models from the sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The mercury dropped to -22.9C (-9.2F) in Braemar, Aberdeenshire. UK weather: temperature hits lowest level since 1995 after 'extreme 1.1Highest temperature by country 1.2Top 10 hottest days 1.3Lowest temperature by nation 1.4Rainfall 1.5Sunshine 1.6Wind speed 1.7Snowfall 1.8Atmospheric pressure 2References Toggle the table of contents Toggle the table of contents United Kingdom weather records Add languages Add links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools So experiencing temperatures below -20.0C in the UK are not common and not usually widespread. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header. A heatwave in July saw the first ever Amber. Deliveries from plant nurseries keep getting postponed. Charleville-Mezieres, a community in northern France near the border with Belgium, saw four straight days of frost, the most consecutive days on record so late in the season. 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Serge Zaka, an expert in climate and agriculture in France, tweeted that crops endured significant damage from multiple frosts following the record warmth, which had caused buds to open. As the snow clears towards the east through the morning, it could become quite pleasant outside with sunshine, although still bitterly cold in western areas, according to the Met Office meteorologist Clare Nasir. Right up until the 1990s, a year as warm as 2021 would have been regarded as quite extreme. Weather in April 2021 in Great Britain, England, United Kingdom The north-west/south-east split resulted in often sunnier conditions in Northern Ireland and Scotland while for South East England the summer was wetter and duller than average. The average temperature last month was 2.2C, the Met Office said. As of 20 December 2022, the records, as recorded by the Met Office, are:[2]. Cities such as Manchester and Carlisle may drop to -4C on Thursday, and York is expected to have lows of -6C. Tue 4 May 2021. In Britain, a beguiling weather pattern began with a balmy February before it became frigid in April. This was a particularly damaging wind storm and the northerly direction of the winds as opposed to the prevailing (south)-westerlies would have been a contributing factor, with cold and snow further complicating some of the recovery. Looking at each season specifically, 2021 began on a relatively cold theme. Man drove with 'practically zero-visibility' 11 February 2021. It is predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures for May through July. Since 2015, the highest average daily temperature in the United Kingdom was recorded in July 2018, at 18.7 degrees Celsius. Overnight the recorded minimum temperature at the weather station at Braemar dropped to -23.0C, one of three stations in the UK to dip below minus 20.0C. ", Met Office , Monthly mean air temperature in England from 2015 to 2022 (in degrees Celsius) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/585133/monthly-mean-temperature-in-england-uk/ (last visited May 02, 2023), Monthly mean air temperature in England from 2015 to 2022 (in degrees Celsius) [Graph], Met Office , December 1, 2022. The high pressure has tended to prevent April shower activity that we might more typically expect to see at this time of year. Braemer, in Aberdeenshire, was the coldest place in the UK, recording a low of minus 15.7C and a high of minus 9.3C, the lowest minimum temperature since February 2021 and the lowest. The Met Office said the last time a temperature below -20C was recorded in the UK was December 23 2010. Dr Nikos Christidis, a senior climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, working on detection and attribution. However, the odds are very clearly shifting, such that 2021 temperatures are amongst the warmest relative to our pre-21st century climate, are close to average for the present day and will likely be relatively cool in the future. dramatic and memorable conditions of 2020, sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Met Office: A review of the UKs climate in 2020. This was reflected in sunshine statistics too, with northwestern areas recording a sunnier than average summer season and central and southeast England recording below average. Was 2021 an average year for UK climate? Forecasters warn that snowy and icy conditions could risk motorists becoming stranded. Last nights temperature at Braemar (11 February 2021) was the lowest recorded in the UK since 1995. Mercury drops to -23C in Scotland, the coldest temperature recorded in UK in more than 25 years. It was overall the coldest January since 2010, and the coldest for any calendar month since the cold and snowy March of 2013. -23.0C at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire, on 11 February; the UK's lowest temperature since 1995 Exceptionally wet weather from Storm Christoph in January A bitterly cold easterly spell and. Traffic Scotland warned motorists to remain at home unless their journey was essential. ", UK weather: January 2021 was coldest in 10 years with more wintry conditions this week, Snow covers the Knaresborough Viaduct in North Yorkshire, A council worker tries to clear snow in Bowes, County Durham, Heavy snowfall in Knaresbrough, North Yorkshire, Waves crash along Porthcawl promenade in South Wales, Flooding submerges a park bench along the River Thames in Berkshire. (December 1, 2022). Trout anglers wonder whether the great mayfly hatches this month will be delayed.