UK has warmest first nine months of year on record, figures suggest

A sequence of heatwaves in July and August led to some of the hottest temperatures ever endured in the UK (Owen Humphreys/PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

The UK has experienced the warmest first nine months of the year on record, according to early provisional figures from the Met Office.

The period from January to September 2022 saw a mean temperature of 10.9C, beating the previous all-time high of 10.6C set in 2014.