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Cambridge Botanic Garden Weather Station where a temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) was recorded in the 2019 European heat wave. The United Kingdom weather records show the most extreme weather ever recorded in the United Kingdom, such as temperature, wind speed, and rainfall records. Reliable temperature records for the whole of the United ...
The warmest decade on record is the 2010s (2011–2020) with a mean temperature of 10.40 °C (50.72 °F). [ 5 ] [ a ] Both the general warming trend [ 6 ] and the hottest year on record at the time, 2014, [ 7 ] have been attributed to human-caused climate change using observational and climate model-based techniques.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is further evidence of the UK government's "recourse to specialised regulatory remits" [113] in order to effectively govern carbon emissions in England. The CRC scheme is a further mandatory cap-and-trade scheme aimed at large public and private sector organisations who account for 10% of the UK's carbon emissions.
The basic climate of the UK annually is wet and cool in winter, spring, and autumn with frequent cloudy skies, and drier and cool to mild in summer. The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a humid temperate oceanic climate , or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of north-west Europe. [ 1 ]
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This category includes historic weather events which have occurred in the United Kingdom. This category includes floods caused by rain, but not floods caused simply by dam failures. For non-weather related events, see Category:Disasters in the United Kingdom
Scotland occupies the cooler northern section of Great Britain, so temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the British Isles, with the coldest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra, Highland, on 30 December 1995.
More than 2,000 people may have died in the UK alone as a result of the hottest summer recorded in Europe since 1540. Temperatures remained above 30 °C (86 °F) for 10 days, between 3 and 13 August. The highest temperature known and accepted was recorded at Faversham, Kent on 10 August when it reached 38.5 °C (101.3 °F). The death toll ...