(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. set a record for its warmest year in 2014 and endured its fourth-wettest in more than a century, according to provisional full-year figures today from the Met Office.
The weather forecaster said eight of the U.K.’s 10 warmest years have occurred since 2002, with a mean temperature for the year of 9.9 degrees Celsius (49.8 Fahrenheit), surpassing the previous high of 9.7 degrees set in 2006.
Provisional rainfall totalled 1,297.1 millimeters, fourth-highest on record dating to 1910, with five of the U.K.’s six wettest years taking place since 2000 amid rising global emissions and climate change. Winter storms last January and February caused coastal and inland flooding and even disrupted train services along southwestern shores. The rains placed 2014 within the 20 wettest years in England and Wales precipitation series records dating to 1766, the Met Office said.
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