2022 is on course to be the warmest year on record in the UK despite a colder-than-usual start to December.
Provisional figures for 2022 - published on Wednesday December 28 - show the year is set to be the warmest since the Met Office's records were first taken in 1884. It breaks the record set in 2014.
One of the weather service's leading meteorologists says the record-setting year is set to be followed by more warmer years due to climate change.