Temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius are forecast for several cities including London and Cardiff on Friday (File)
London:
The UK on Friday experienced its warmest New Year’s Eve on record with temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit), the Met Office said.
Met Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said the Yorkshire village of Ryehill in northern England recorded a temperature of 14.9C at 11am on Friday, breaking the previous record of 14.8C. in Wales in 2011.
The Met Office later tweeted that the Lincolnshire village of Coningsby in the East Midlands had hit 15.3C “meaning today was the warmest New Year’s Eve on record in the UK”.
Temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius are forecast for several cities including London and Cardiff on Friday. “We will end 2021 on a very light UK-wide note,” the Met Office said.
Despite the warm weather conditions, the UK celebrated New Year’s Eve in silence without the usual huge fireworks displays in London and Edinburgh and nightclubs closed and limited. social gatherings in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Mike Kendon of the National Center for Climate Information said this year was “slightly warmer and slightly drier than average”, said in a summary published by the Met Office.
The Met Office said the coming year “is likely to be in the top 20 warmest years on record for the UK – a string that goes back to 1884”, the Met Office said, as “our climate is changing”. Warming”.
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