'Higher temperatures in the U.K. are contributing to more severe heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires but also more intense rainfall events and associated flooding,' said one climate scientist.
Last year was the hottest year on record in the United Kingdom, the national meteorological serviceThursday, emphasizing that the human-caused climate emergency was what drove the country to see record-breaking heat last summer and an annual average temperature of 50°F, or 10.03°C.
Signs that the U.K. was experiencing an unusually hot year were evident last summer, when the country experienced temperatures above 104°F for the first time ever. "Climate change made this around 160 times more likely," the Met Office said of the unusually high average temperature. "It reinforces what scientists have been saying for decades now, that climate change is real and is happening, and it supports the arguments that change is likely to be faster over the land masses of the Northern Hemisphere than almost anywhere else,"The Met Office released its findings for 2022 as countries across Europe reported, with ski resorts across the Alps shutting down during what's normally the height of skiing season.
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