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UK had hottest and fourth wettest year in 2014
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The UK experienced its hottest ever year in 2014, provisional data shows. The average temperature across the last twelve months was 9.9C, beating the 2006 record of 9.7C, the Met Office has revealed. Eight of the UKs top ten warmest years have occurred since 2002. Having kicked off with wintry storms and widespread flooding in January and February, 2014 was also the fourth wettest year on record. This is clear evidence of the impact of man-made climate change on the UK, said Bob Ward,...
Met Office: UK has had its wettest winter on record
2014-02-21 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Prolonged storms and heavy rainfall have led to the wettest winter in Britain since records began in 1910, the Met Office has said. Provisional figures said that 486.8mm of rain fell between December 1 and February 19 beating the previous record of 485.1mm of rain back in 1995. Wales, East Scotland and Southern England all have new regional records. The milestone comes despite the winter not being over yet. The Met Office warned that more rain might still fall over the coming weeks, as 61...
Climate change: Tibet wettest in 2010 in 3,500 years
2014-02-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Recent decades have likely been the wettest on record in the semi-arid Tibetan plateau, researchers say, warning that any further large-scale warming might lead to even greater rainfall in Tibet, the birthplace for Asia's great rivers. The wettest individual year reconstructed in 3,500 years in northeastern Tibet is 2010, say climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in an online paper in US academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy...
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January was UK's wettest winter month in almost 250 years
2014-02-01 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The deluge that has engulfed southern and central England in recent weeks is the worst winter downpour in almost 250 years, according to figures from the world's longest-running weather station. The rainfall measured at the historic Radcliffe Meteorological Station at Oxford University in January was greater than for any winter month since daily recording began there in 1767, and three times the average amount. The latest Met Office data shows that the region from Devon to Kent and up into...
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Parts of England see wettest January since records began
2014-01-30 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Large parts of England have endured the wettest January since records began, according to new figures released by the Met Office, as troops headed to the Somerset Levels to help deliver assistance to flood-hit communities. A large area from east Devon to Kent and inland across parts of the Midlands has already seen twice the average rainfall for the month. Two days before the end of the month, the figures show that south-east and central southern England have already recorded twice their average...
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