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  Climate crisis fuels year of record temperatures in UK, says Met Office

  

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  Global heating blamed as summer and winter records tumble in 2019A series of high temperature records were broken in the UK in 2019 as a consequence of the climate crisis, the Met Office has said.The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was exceeded on 25 July in Cambridge, where the thermometer hit 38.7C (101F). The record for the hottest February day was also broken, with Kew Gardens in London recording 21.2C on the 26th. Continue reading...

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  2020 was hottest year on record by narrow margin, Nasa says

  

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  Due to different methods, US Noaa judged year as fractionally cooler than 2016 while UK Met...

  Due to different methods, US Noaa judged year as fractionally cooler than 2016 while UK Met Office put 2020 in close second placeLast year was by a narrow margin the hottest ever on record, according to Nasa, with the climate crisis stamping its mark on 2020 through soaring temperatures, enormous hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires.The average global land and ocean temperature in 2020 was the...

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  New Zealand records seventh-hottest year, with extreme weather more likely

  

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  It has been nearly four years since New Zealand experienced a month with below-average temperatures, researchers...

  It has been nearly four years since New Zealand experienced a month with below-average temperatures, researchers sayNew Zealand recorded its seventh-hottest year on record in 2020, and marked nearly four years since it experienced a month with below-average temperatures.The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) has been collecting New Zealand’s temperature records since the early 1900s, and said on Tuesday that above-average...

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  Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather

  

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  While Covid has dominated the news, the world has also felt the effects of human-driven global...

  While Covid has dominated the news, the world has also felt the effects of human-driven global heatingThis year has broken a series of unwelcome weather records. Last month was the warmest November in history. This followed the hottest January, May and September. All-time temperature peaks were registered from the Antarctic to the Arctic. Since the start of the year, Australia, Siberia and California have...

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