Temperatures once experienced only in the south-east have started becoming normal in England’s north-east, north-west and much of south Wales, because of global warming.
Milder winters and warmer summers are spreading north, as well as moving uphill, in hilly or mountainous regions, according to the Met Office’s annual State of the UK Climate 2025 report.
“Our climate is on the move,” said Mike Kendon, a climate scientist at the Met Office and the report’s lead author.
“Areas like the Vale of York and Lancashire now have similar annual temperatures to those experienced by Greater London in 1961 to 1900,” said Kendon.
“Climate change is affecting many areas of the UK, not just those in the warmest south and east.”
The move up north
Areas of the UK where the average annual temperature was over 10°C were mainly confined to Greater London, the south coast, and parts of Devon and Cornwall between 1961 and 1990, as shown in lilac on the map below.
By the next period studied, 1991 to 2020, shown in mid-purple, this had spread to most of central and southern England. By the most recent decade, shown in dark purple, this had spread even further north and into hilly areas.
Lancashire now has a similar average annual temperature as Greater London in the 1960sMaximum temperatures rising most
Comparing the last decade to the three decades from 1961 to 1990, while the average annual temperature in the UK has risen by only 1.3°C, maximum temperatures have risen by more than that, with heatwaves becoming more common.
The hottest day of the year rose by at least 3°C across almost all of England, and was as much as 4.5°C higher across a swathe of England from Kent to Lincolnshire.
And the number of days over 30°C and nights over 18°C in Greater London has more than quadrupled, comparing the same time periods.
“The way we experience climate change most is through weather extremes,” said Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society.
“Climate change is now increasingly being felt by the UK population.”
How average annual temperature has risen
Average annual temperatures in the UK for the baseline comparison period of 1931 to 1960 In the last decade, the average annual temperature has risen in most of the UK, especially in the east of EnglandWhile summers are becoming hotter and drier, winters are becoming milder and wetter. The warmer winters mean diseases and insect pests are establishing in areas of the UK where previously they would have been killed off over winter. “We no longer get the cold snaps that we used to,” said Kendon.
Insect pests include box tree moths, whose caterpillars devastate box bushes and oak processionary moths, the caterpillars of which have highly irritating hairs. Both are established in the south-east and their spread is being hastened by climate change.
Winters are getting wetter because a warming climate boosts evaporation of water from oceans and warmer air can hold more moisture, which eventually falls as rain.
The report was published in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology.
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