Warmest year
Holiday makers enjoying sunny beach weather at Woolacombe beach, North Devon, in 2014 (Picture: PA)

It may have not felt like it towards the end, but 2014 was the UK’s warmest year on record.

Provisional figures from the Met Office showed it was the hottest since records started back in 1910.

If you didn’t remember many blistering periods that’s because there weren’t any record-breaking hot months.

Instead, temperatures were consistently warm, with only August experiencing a below average climate.

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The average temperature for 2014 was 9.9C (49.8F), some 1.1C (2F) above the long term average, making it warmer than the previous record year of 2006.

The good weather may have been tempered by the fact it was also the fourth wettest year since records begun.

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment London School of Economics (LSE) said: ‘This is clear evidence of the impact of man-made climate change on the UK.’

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